How to Use accepted in a Sentence

accepted

adjective
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  • The board claims the substances have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use.
    — Jackie Borchardt, Cincinnati.com, 12 Apr. 2019
  • Somehow, this became the accepted fitness norm for daily steps in many countries around the world.
    — NBC News, 7 June 2019
  • On Cape Cod, sharks have become an accepted part of the local lifestyle.
    — Sophia Eppolito and Marek Mazurek, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2018
  • While having a kink is generally becoming more accepted, disclosing one can still be scary.
    — Sophie Saint Thomas, SELF, 26 Oct. 2018
  • Lying northeast of Cairo, this site, known as Tell Basta, became the accepted spot where Bastet’s city once stood.
    — Irene Cordón, National Geographic, 7 May 2019
  • In May, all of the country’s serving Catholic bishops offered their resignations to the pope, who has so far accepted seven of them.
    — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
  • The Tuition Deposit is credited to the tuition for accepted students.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Tanking — aggressively losing to gain a better spot in the amateur draft — has become an accepted strategy.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2019
  • That went along with praying for healing, casting out devils, and speaking in tongues, which are more accepted practices among Pentecostals and charismatics today.
    — Julia Duin, WSJ, 12 July 2018
  • Kepler was working on his laws of planetary motion, and in time, the Copernican model would become universally accepted.
    — National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2019
  • As with so many new or emerging technologies today, once a particular toolset or function type has become a de facto standard or accepted norm, there’s always a charge to productize it as a service.
    — Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • For a full list of accepted items, see ww.flatcanrecycling.com/what-we-recycle.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Physicians learn to just do the routine, to do the accepted things -- don’t go too far out.
    — oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The other five accepted guilty pleas rather than bring their case to a jury.
    — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The accepted rules of the day required a return run to qualify for a record.
    — Elana Scherr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The accepted thing to do was to make excuses for a wrong, to ignore it, to sit and wait for the police to act after the fact.
    — Michael P.h. Stanley, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The accepted students were due to spend the whole weekend getting a taste of the college lifestyle.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Nee wanted to make something that made kids feel seen and feel accepted.
    — Karen Idelson, Variety, 15 June 2022
  • Bird and Sherwin agree that much of the evidence aligns with the accepted story.
    — Vulture, 25 July 2023
  • The accepted source location is the Chinese city of Wuhan.
    — Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 4 Sep. 2020
  • While they can be worn to somber events like funerals, the more accepted etiquette would be to wear a hat as a sign of respect.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2022
  • People who might not have the best home life, or have problems, can just go there, meet others and feel accepted.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2020
  • This is now an accepted way to raise puppies that can grow up to become more relaxed dogs.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2022
  • You had been prepared for an ending and had so accepted death that life itself was the surprise.
    — Anne Lagamayo, Longreads, 11 May 2023
  • Traughber said the accepted offer was all cash and well above asking.
    — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Because right now Sirk is a kind of accepted currency in the cinephile landscape.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Many more accepted thick envelopes of Russian rubles on top of their pay as an inducement to stay in their jobs.
    — Michael E. Miller and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Everyone is trusted, and people feel accepted and part of the team.
    — Joseph Folkman, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • There is a more accepted level for men to be aggressive.
    — Julie Holunga, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • At the same time, every prisoner and detainee has the right to [file a complaint] in the accepted channels and his claims will be examined.
    — Guy Davies, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2024

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