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approve

[uh-proov] / əˈpruv /




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In the event of the parents’ death, the courts would still need to approve the guardian.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

Leadership did not approve turning on Quiet Mode by default for younger teens, which held down adoption because the setting was hard to find in the app, Volichenko said.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

The new fee would need to be paid before the government decides whether or not to approve an application.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

He did not ask Congress to weigh in or approve the massive project.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

I drag her away because I know Nasreen aunty wouldn’t approve.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

What’s more, the public by and large approves of last term’s major decisions, according to a poll this month from Marquette Law School.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

If the rest of the committee thinks it needs to raise rates to restrain inflation, that’s precisely what it will do, whether Warsh approves or not.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

Measure gravity by the statute’s subject matter rather than the defendant’s conduct and proportionality review approves everything.

From Slate Jul. 28, 2026

“There is no other state that both has admission requirements that are laid out and then actually approves each and every course and its content,” Darling-Hammond said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

June 4: The US Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to all the states for ratification.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

The law, if approved, would work by assigning a “job retention credit” of $20,000 per journalist for up to five positions, and after that $15,000 for every additional journalist.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

Any deal would then have to be approved by a second referendum, as well by parliament, and the constitution would have to be amended.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

"The concert had not been approved by all the necessary authorities," it cited two sources as saying.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

Nvidia told some providers that they could rent the chips only to approved customers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

President Kennedy had approved an overflight of Cuba.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

But those objections weren’t enough, and “we all feared that the Planning Department was on the verge of possibly approving the process ministerially.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

It did so as part of an effort to pressure and trick the real people into approving its malicious code.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

The vulnerable names are regulated utilities whose growth plans depend on regulators and voters approving higher household bills while the company builds for Big Tech.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

Congress who have a role in approving major weapons sales.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Also, instead of approving the idea of an unlimited number of games, it narrowed the number to thirty-six—which struck Bobby as an outrageously small number if draws weren’t going to count.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady




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