assent

Throughout our conversation, in fact, the pair chuckles, nods along to each other’s answers, interjects sounds of assent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Not many international leaders have commented on Burnham's assent to power.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Or perhaps the money could require states to assent to damage suits against their prison systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Once Jacqueline Kennedy nodded her assent, Walton eyed the ground and indicated the place to be staked.

From Salon ● May 7, 2026

There are murmurs of assent and then, to my horror, I hear the pack heading toward me.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

Hungary has signaled it will back Sweden’s bid once Turkey assents.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

Now, it’s true that not everyone on the subreddit assents to its spiteful premise: One exhausted nurse wrote a long post about how much one of her anti-vax patients suffered, as an attempt at counterbalance.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2021

“She’s gone through hell and high water,” the pastor said to nods and assents.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2021

When a PhD candidate named Charles Walker pleads for late admission to his graduate seminar, Stoner assents with reluctance.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2015

Someone assents with a shout, and someone else joins in.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

Though the demand has no legal basis, Nvidia assented without complaint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Moderna resisted, but agreed to provide test subjects with enhanced disclosures on its informed consent form, to which the FDA assented.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

Rubio swiftly assented to calls from European leaders to meet in Geneva to review the Witkoff-Kushner-Dmitriev plan.

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025

A gazette from the Senate Secretariat stated that they were "deemed to have been assented to by the president".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023

He liked to entice me into lies: “Gorgeous necktie,” he’d say, “that’s a Hermès, isn’t it?”—and then, when I assented, reach quickly across the lunch table and expose my poor tie’s humble lineage.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Isaac Mwaura, spokesperson for the current Kenyan government, told the BBC that the authorities were "very co-operative with the protesters and acceded to the demands, including the president not assenting to the finance bill".

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2024

That’s certainly how the characters feel in the early episodes, quietly assenting to the fate suggested in their bad marriages, puzzling children and unfulfilling jobs.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2023

I could not reconcile this—the notion of assenting to a false inferiority seemed slightly dishonest to me—but it was clear to me that they could and I respected that.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2020

That’s because assenting to a religion is not like choosing to be a Republican or a Democrat.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2020

There was a fearful rumble of assenting and the room grew quiet.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool