approbation

Example Sentences

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Rather, a pattern emerges of a man who was deeply ambitious, massively concerned with his reputation, and in regular search of the public approbation, even as he denied such desires.”

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026

It later came out that National City’s efforts to lend money on stocks had the Federal Reserve’s internal approbation, not its opposition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

He'll do a lot of damage before he's finished — but he will never get the popular approbation he craves, now or in the future.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025

It’s associated with pleasure and the expectation or experience of a reward, which can include the surmounting of a threat “such as overcoming fear, winning a race, receiving respect and approbation from others,” Spiegel says.

From National Geographic • Oct. 16, 2023

So terrified was I that some irregularity would interfere with enlistment—some unforeseen objection—I perhaps answered with too great an exactitude, too punctilious a range of detail—desperate for approbation.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson