How to Use acquiescent in a Sentence
acquiescent
adjective
- The acquiescent girl became a strong assertive woman.
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These are highly prized in the worker-bee slot, but not so great in the CEO slot, where this cluster can lead to a tendency to be submissive or acquiescent.
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Neil Senturia,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
2 Oct. 2017
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To depose the son, the opposition had to undermine a fortress state to which many Syrians were loyal, or at least acquiescent.
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Charles Glass,
Harper's magazine,
10 Feb. 2019
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While South Korea, Brazil and Australia have been more acquiescent, most of the world's major powers have rejected his demands.
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Heather Long and Steven Mufson,
chicagotribune.com,
2 June 2018
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After more than three decades in prison, Dailey seemed even-tempered, agreeable, even acquiescent.
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Pamela Colloff,
ProPublica,
4 Dec. 2019
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And Arena has been one of Emanuel's loudest critics on the largely acquiescent City Council, giving the mayor another reason not to come to his aid.
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John Byrne,
chicagotribune.com,
24 May 2017
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Her decision to, through her representation, depict the 28 players as acquiescent and gullible will only widen the gulf.
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Michael McCann,
SI.com,
23 July 2019
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Instead the Democrats and Leftists are quietly acquiescent as these children and their parents are openly attacked for the (different) colors of their skin.
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Tim Huelskamp,
National Review,
15 Oct. 2020
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Still, a cutting-edge cutthroat novel cannot be merely an acquiescent doppelgänger.
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Cynthia Ozick,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2017
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But its hyperlocal and acquiescent posture mutes public engagement and policy debate on India’s role as the world’s largest democracy.
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Anjani Jain,
Fortune,
23 Mar. 2022
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Teachers unions, which have emerged as a powerful force of opposition to school reopenings in the United States, have generally been more acquiescent in Europe, pushing for safety measures rather than closures.
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Michael Birnbaum,
Anchorage Daily News,
2 Dec. 2020
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Teachers unions, which have emerged as a powerful force of opposition to school reopenings in the United States, have generally been more acquiescent in Europe, pushing for safety measures rather than closures.
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Michael Birnbaum,
Anchorage Daily News,
2 Dec. 2020
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While antigovernment sentiment remains strong and protesters’ demands have widened, the outbreak has cut across political lines in Hong Kong, which has grappled with seven months of pushback against a government viewed as too acquiescent to Beijing.
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Joyu Wang,
WSJ,
31 Jan. 2020
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To wit, Ruth starts off as such an inexplicably monstrous figure — cursing, growling, demanding, hurling highball glasses at Sam’s head (and wounding him) — that her switch to more acquiescent soul-searcher feels like an impossible leap.
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Gary Goldstein,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2023
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The fact that Raniere collected kompromat from DOS members strongly suggests that his psychological coercion techniques were not, by themselves, sufficient to keep women acquiescent.
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Zoë Heller,
The New Yorker,
5 July 2021
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Strict emotional regulation is maintained over these relationships, which include a long affair with a married woman whose husband is affably acquiescent.
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Tim Parks,
The New York Review of Books,
24 June 2020
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Israel’s entrenched system of control over the Palestinian territories and its creeping annexation of Palestinian lands, unchecked for years by an acquiescent United States, may only provoke more angry resistance.
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Ishaan Tharoor,
Washington Post,
21 May 2021
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