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accept verb (BELIEVE)
[ + that ] I can't accept that there's nothing we can do.
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- confessRawlinson finally confessed to the robbery.
- own upCome on, own up - who's eaten the last sandwich?
- fess upFess up - you wanted to go to the cinema instead, didn't you?
- come cleanI decided to come clean about the broken vase.
- concedeShe did eventually concede that the instructions were not very clear.
- admitHe admitted that he had been wrong.
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- acceptI fully accept that I was wrong.
- acknowledgeI acknowledge that the project has faced delays, but we will do all we can to make up time.
- recognizeI do recognize that mistakes were made.
- admitWhy don't you just admit you got it wrong?
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- believeCan we believe a word of what this man says?
- acceptMost people accept what the newspapers say as being correct.
- creditUK It’s hard to credit that she’s 87.
- swallowI personally find it hard to swallow the official narrative.
- buyWhen it comes to global warming, he doesn't buy it, and is out to discredit the whole theory.
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- bearI will bear the responsibility for whatever happens.
- endureShe endured years of hip pain before seeing a surgeon.
- sufferShe suffers from severe asthma.
- acceptI have finally accepted that I can't change who he is.
- resign yourself toI have resigned myself to the fact that I'll never work again.
- become resigned toPeople have become resigned to the fact that increased security means much longer wait times at airports.
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- She can't accept she made a mistake and now she's trying to lay the blame on her assistant.
- Rationally, he knows that she won't ever go back to him, but emotionally he can't accept it.
- She refused to accept that she was wrong and stalked furiously out of the room.
- I had to accept that the relationship had run its course.
- It was a terrible struggle for him to accept her death.
(Definition of accept from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of accept
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Major alterations to the text will be accepted only at the author's expense.
The loose-coupling theory is not yet generally accepted.
I have accordingly suggested that such an account cannot be accepted as it stands, and needs revision.
Giegerich 1999 : 17), because the conditions for accepting the ' given ', already existing, are distinct from the conditions for creating the new.
In many areas, the idea that a clear-cut boundary exists between the presence and absence of pathology is no longer accepted.
The majority (n=90, 89.1 %) felt accepted by most people, 8 (7.9 %) by some, 3 (3 %) by no one.
Only diagnoses made by appropriately qualified staff (consultant psychiatrists or consultant paediatricians working in the field of neurodevelopmental disability) were accepted as valid.
The central committee usually accepts ideas coming from a few top political leaders as absolute and unquestionable.
One lear ns more about the notion of collaborative lear ning if one accepts that conflict and disag reement can also be involved.
Because this is ethnographic research that uses a case study method, we accepted the first four families who met our requirements and agreed to participate.
The six papers that were accepted represent major areas of research in the field.
Generalizations are accepted when they fall into one of the two groups described in the rest of the section: best rules and contextual rules.
Thus, it is proven that if a string is generated by the context-free grammar, it is accepted by the finite-state approximation of the grammar.
The parser uses a chart-based best-first algorithm that accepts input incrementally.
However, none of these theories is universally accepted.
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