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consent

[kuhn-sent] / kΙ™nˈsΙ›nt /




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Alongside this, investors and analysts will be focused on updates around the U.S. consent decree process, she adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

She wrote on the platform: “I did not and would never consent to this administration running my fanart through AI and posting it. Can’t even believe I’m saying these words.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The foreign emoluments clause prohibits all federal officials from accepting gifts of valuables, office, or title from any foreign country without express congressional consent.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

Spix's macaws, a Brazilian blue parrot extinct in the wild -- as featured in the 2011 Disney film "Rio" -- were transferred from Germany without Brazil's required consent.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

To “come along” meant that he would change his ways and consent to be the husband she had traveled so far to find.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

But if biological mothers and fathers are constitutionally forbidden from transferring parental rights, then many adoption consents are null and void.

From Slate ● May 13, 2026

In a recent update, the company has secured five transmission planning decisions since November, and will continue to focus on securing remaining consents for its projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 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 ● Mar. 13, 2025

"Technology has made it possible for them to be created by anyone, anywhere, at anytime, regardless of whether she consents," she added.

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 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

The court also acquitted them of abusing Graven's psychological frailty, as he had told police prior to his death that he had consented to the stunts, Hamadi's lawyer told Reuters.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

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 ● Aug. 4, 2026

They wrote For the People who consented to be governed by it, which includes you.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

North Korea consented to freeze its illicit nuclear work and eventually allow full inspections in exchange for a multibillion-dollar package of civilian nuclear power and oil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

She obligingly consented to act as mediatrix in the matter.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte BrontΓ«

Winter said it was an "extremely curious feature" of the case that Brand "obviously genuinely believed that they were consenting because that's the only thing that would explain why his behaviour was normal."

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

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 ● 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 ● Sep. 11, 2026

“Two adults consenting, which is our position, is not against the law,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Now, being a man, I could not help consenting.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer


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