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assent

[uh-sent] / əˈsɛnt /




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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

Along the way Mr. Warsh has some hope of securing some minimal degree of assent to reforms from other Fed policymakers, influential academics and investors.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

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

From Salon May 7, 2026

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has said for years that the Fed wouldn’t consider issuing such a currency without Congress’ assent.

From Barron's Apr. 28, 2026

Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

“False endorsement and misappropriation, FanDuel could insist, are inapplicable to a personalized video setting where the video’s talent voluntarily assents in exchange for compensation,” McCann wrote.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

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

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

Elliot notes, a bit melodramatically, that while Erika “led me down the path to my destruction,” he actively assented to everything that happened to him.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Presidents have done so 132 times; each time, Congress has assented or at least not objected in any tangible way.

From Slate Jun. 29, 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

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 assented to flight, and we turned and fled in a disorderly rout.

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

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

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

From Seattle Times Sep. 27, 2020

Seven months later, he blamed his financial woes on a nationwide “depression,” refused to admit that the Taj was bankrupt, and then signed a four-page document assenting to bankruptcy proceedings.

From Washington Post Apr. 20, 2020

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

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool




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