as in resigned
receiving or enduring without offering resistance
was not as acquiescent about sharing her room as her parents seemed to think she should be
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Israeli and Palestinian observers pointed to the acquiescent role played by the local Israel Defense Forces in essentially turning the other way as the settlers went on the rampage.
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Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
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.
—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
But its hyperlocal and acquiescent posture mutes public engagement and policy debate on India’s role as the world’s largest democracy.
—Anjani Jain, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2022
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.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 May 2021
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Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
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.
—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
But its hyperlocal and acquiescent posture mutes public engagement and policy debate on India’s role as the world’s largest democracy.
—Anjani Jain, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2022
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.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 May 2021
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