accept an assurance
Frequency: 6.77.1 per million words
To believe or agree to a promise.
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- They accepted his assurance that patients would be treated as soon as possible.
- The board was hesitant to accept the CEO's assurance without seeing the financial reports.
- I will accept your assurance that the work will be completed on time.
- She could not accept his repeated assurances after being let down so many times.
- For the deal to proceed, we must accept their written assurance of confidentiality.
- Accepting an assurance at face value can sometimes be a naive mistake.
- The public is unlikely to accept any assurance from the politician without concrete evidence.
- He reluctantly accepted her assurance that the secret was safe with her.
- Do you have enough faith to accept their assurance of support?
- We have accepted the government's firm assurance that our funding is secure.