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Definition of "acquiesced" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of acquiesce. (verb)

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Use "acquiesced" in a sentence
  • "But while the labels acquiesced on DRM, the RIAA has not stopped their witch hunt for “pirates”, and this Ars Technica post quotes the technical chief at the RIAA as saying that DRM will rear its ugly head yet again, especially as people stop buying single track downloads and/or CDs and move to subscription services."
  • "Edwin acquiesced, as he was to return with all speed to join his friend on the southern bank of the Forth; and Helen, aware that fields of blood were no scenes for her, while her heart was wring to agony at the thought of relinquishing Wallace to new dangers, yielded a reluctant assent, – not merely to go, but to take that look of him which might be the last."
  • "Let’s remember that McCain acquiesced in legislation that did not extend the Field Manual to such interrogations."