authorize
Example Sentences
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Approximately 2,000 hospitality workers at SoFi Stadium will begin voting Thursday over whether to authorize a strike just a week before the World Cup is scheduled to kick off at the Inglewood venue.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
The hospital would not authorize a transfer or arrange to send her in an ambulance, and it offered no explanation for why.
From Salon • May 27, 2026
Did he authorize Kushner and Witkoff to put it on the table as the basis for talks?
From Slate • May 7, 2026
Most shipping organizations said the waterway remains too unsafe to cross because of mines, while Iran’s military has said it would block any vessel it doesn’t authorize.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
What Priddy needed was a blanket legal order that would authorize him to sterilize a woman on explicitly eugenic grounds; one such test case would set the standard for a thousand.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing authorize
Quartering Act (1765)
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for January 1–January 7, 2022
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Maryland Toleration Act (1649)
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