approve
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She and her sister both approve of hiding the numbers of likes and restricting filters.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
They said they never saw a draft of the settlement and never adopted a formal resolution to approve it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
“But the X-Men don’t approve of it when he does that. Good guys don’t kill bad guys.”
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
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Kendrick also attacked Callaway’s decision, writing on X: “Interesting that @CallawayGolf asks us to make an ad then approves it then asks us to take the fall then drops us in a coordinated media blitz.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
And the convention approves this unanimously without noted debate because it’s so freaking obvious, right?
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 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
“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
Earlier, when Bargh had gone to the committee at NYU that approves human experiments, they had made him promise that he would cut off the conversation in the hall at ten minutes.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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In June, lawmakers approved a major expansion of the funding allocated each year to the state’s film and television tax credit program, moving to raise that cap to $750 million from $330 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
For drugmakers, a clock starts before a drug is even approved: Patents run out, lower-priced copycats flood in and sales collapse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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 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
In order to make the ship’s food stores last as long as possible, Shackleton was determined to feed the crew on seal meat, but not everyone approved of the plan.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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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
Note: Net approval is share approving minus disapproving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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
Tatterfell gives me an approving nod, her eyes like two wet beads of jet, neither pupil nor iris visible.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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