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  • We were told at first that the hospital wouldn't be able to determine the cause of death until Monday, when they would perform the autopsy. But my father's radio station wanted to issue a news release about his death... The morgue acquiesced, and by Saturday afternoon we found out that he had died from...  (source)
    acquiesced = reluctantly complied
  • It must have been after midnight, and I was puzzled by his amiable acquiescence.  (source)
    acquiescence = compliance (allowing what was asked)
  • In the end she had won, and her father had acquiesced against his better judgment.  (source)
    acquiesced = reluctantly complied (agreed)
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  • I'd be screaming at them, telling them how much I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simple-minded patriotism ... how they were sending me off to fight a war they didn't understand and didn't want to understand.  (source)
    acquiescence = compliance
  • I had wished her out of my life, and she had acquiesced, floating out of her body to escape my terrible hatred.  (source)
    acquiesced = reluctantly complied
  • Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live.  (source)
    acquiesce = reluctantly accept (it as fair)
  • From backstage I was uniquely positioned to search the audience for the acquiescent presence of Mr. and Mrs. Meany; they were not there.†  (source)
    acquiescent = reluctant compliance; or inclined to comply
  • She had a sense of acquiescing in this plan with the passiveness of a sufferer resigned to the surgeon's touch;  (source)
    acquiescing = reluctantly complying
  • In full awareness of the life anguish of the creatures of his hand, in full consciousness of the roaring wilderness of pains, the brain-splitting fires of the deluded, self-ravaging, lustful, angry universe of his creation, this divinity acquiesces in the deed of supplying life to life.†  (source)
    acquiesces = reluctantly complies
  • Mr. Letterblair looked at him from under enquiring eyebrows, and the young man, aware of the uselessness of trying to explain what was in his mind, bowed acquiescently while his senior continued: "Divorce is always unpleasant."†  (source)
    acquiescently = with reluctant compliance
  • His acquiescence probably had to do with the fact that...  (source)
    acquiescence = reluctant compliance
  • The red-faced judge hastily acquiesced in this extraordinary order and promptly left town.  (source)
    acquiesced = complied
  • each time he was forced to acquiesce to Danny's rendition of a passage  (source)
    acquiesce = reluctantly accept
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