consent
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Meta and others sued last year over Senate Bill 976, a similar bill known as “Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act” that bars addictive feeds and certain features to minors without parental consent.
From Los Angeles Times โ Nov. 5, 2026
Entering private property without a landowner's consent to forage is a civil rather than criminal offence.
From BBC โ Nov. 3, 2026
Alongside this, investors and analysts will be focused on updates around the U.S. consent decree process, she adds.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Nov. 3, 2026
Moreover, the Constitution does not ban foreign emoluments absolutely; it merely requires that Congress must consent to them.
From Slate โ Oct. 30, 2026
As a practical matter, sachems had to gain the consent of their people, who could easily move away and join another sachemship.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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By claiming that “it is unconstitutional for biological parents to transfer their parental rights,” Jay told me, Uthmeier’s argument “sweeps in” adoption consents, too.
From Slate โ 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 โ 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 โ 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 โ Nov. 11, 2024
He fumbles with the lighter before it consents to spark.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Although 88 agents consented to the forensic imaging of their personal phones, Robbins said none of those had been imaged at the time of the hearing.
From Los Angeles Times โ Aug. 4, 2026
That arrangement quietly splits the person who is being watched from the person who consented to the watching.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Jun. 23, 2026
When the detective asked her to take a polygraph, she consented.
From Slate โ Apr. 6, 2026
Highland Independent councillor Thomas MacLennan said the property would sit "more comfortably" in the landscape than the previously consented property.
From BBC โ Apr. 1, 2026
He never seemed to single her out, but sometimes he consented when she suggested that they walk along the green in the twilight.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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Part of the way the law fails women is through the narrative that what I’m calling “overentitlement” is actually in line with what everyone wants and is consenting to.
From Slate โ Oct. 16, 2026
These "pre-mortem" tissue samples came from consenting patients undergoing heart bypass procedures at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.
From Science Daily โ Sep. 11, 2026
In a secure and mutually consenting relationship, of course.
From Los Angeles Times โ Jul. 13, 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 โ Jun. 23, 2026
As we were men we could not help consenting.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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Common Senses: Sent, Sens ("Feel")
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