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Please explain me the meaning of INTOLERANCE with examples. Thanks in advance.

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INTOLERANCE:

noun
1. lack of toleration; unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect contrary opinions or beliefs, persons of different races or backgrounds, etc.
2. incapacity or indisposition to bear or endure: intolerance to heat.
3. abnormal sensitivity or allergy to a food, drug, etc.

Example Sentences

The only thing a tolerant society cannot tolerate is intolerance.
Cold intolerance can be a symptom of a metabolic problem.
It turns out my problem was a simple, but dangerous food intolerance causing widespread inflammation in my muscles and nerves.
Intolerance for pollutants and species extinction will be high.
Diagnosis, symptoms, and calcium intakes of individuals with self-reported lactose intolerance.
Food intolerance means that sometimes a specific food can trigger a migraine and sometimes not.
Science writers and educators have to maintain a collected approach, despite the shouts of scientific intolerance.
Nor is it necessarily a sign of growing intolerance.
Best of all, the last pagans could be acclaimed for having stood for tolerance in an age of mounting intolerance.
The monks had acquiesced in this descent into communal intolerance.

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