consent
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US regulators have published a consent order requiring Bank of America to work with a third party to identify and report suspicious transactions that went undetected.
From Barron's β Oct. 13, 2026
“Gender, sexuality, misogyny, religious hypocrisy, pederasty, ethical consent, and a host of layered questions that have a throughline to our world today,” Mr. Costanzo writes.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 9, 2026
Institutions would finally take claims of rape seriously, and young men would have a better understanding of consent and the consequences.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 8, 2026
It also said it was "paramount that the residents be protected from any form of forced processions that disregard their consent, safety and right to live in peace free from intimidation".
From BBC β Oct. 7, 2026
While bombs fell in the North, Nixon sent a blunt note to President Thieu in the South: the United States was going to make a deal with or without his consent.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
These consents, after all, are legal agreements that terminate a biological parent’s legal claim to a child and vest those rights in non-biological parents.
From Slate β May 13, 2026
The board cited uncertainty in obtaining client consents and questioned Victory Capital’s $500 million synergy estimate.
From The Wall Street Journal β Mar. 11, 2026
And he can remain on our soil only when the sovereign — in the U.S., that’s “We the People” — consents to it.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 13, 2025
Uplift accused regulators of "failing to be transparent" in granting the consents and said Rosebank would damage marine life in the North Sea.
From BBC β Nov. 11, 2024
He consents without a murmur, all join in a joyful chorus, and the curtain falls upon the lovers kneeling to receive Don Pedro’s blessing in attitudes of the most romantic grace.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Meta has pushed back against these reports, saying it does not believe that Muse accesses emails unless a user has consented.
From BBC β Oct. 8, 2026
In the end, Sheinbaum consented to freeze the former officials’ accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 7, 2026
However, it added that fewer families had consented for their loved ones' organs to be donated, and there had been a reduction in the number of eligible donors.
From BBC β Sep. 22, 2026
They wrote For the People who consented to be governed by it, which includes you.
From Slate β Jul. 20, 2026
He even consented to take two aspirin tablets.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. OβBrien
These "pre-mortem" tissue samples came from consenting patients undergoing heart bypass procedures at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.
From Science Daily β Sep. 11, 2026
He suggests Washington’s funding could require state officers “to enter separate contracts with the federal government consenting to answer suits under RLUIPA.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 23, 2026
If a journalist wants an on-the-record interview with someone in Objection’s orbit, they are asked to sign an agreement consenting in advance to the tribunal’s jurisdiction.
From Salon β Apr. 23, 2026
“If you want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults. We can finish it here,” the U.S. senator said during a congressional hearing.
From Slate β Mar. 5, 2026
No coward’s eye should light by my consenting!
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Vocabulary lists containing consent
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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The Bill of Rights
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Common Senses: Sent, Sens ("Feel")
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