consent
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Around ten of their clients have given their consent to sign this collective complaint before the CJR, the lawyers said.
From Barron's β Nov. 6, 2026
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 β Nov. 5, 2026
During his testimony he stated that "consent is fundamental, essential, necessary and indeed in many ways more important than sex itself".
From BBC β Nov. 5, 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 β Nov. 3, 2026
By tacit consent, they had adopted a plan of campaign.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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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 fumbles with the lighter before it consents to spark.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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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
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 β Aug. 4, 2026
The wingman pilot acknowledged his sudden manoeuvre led to the collision, but argued that the lead aircraft's pilot had "tacitly consented" to the manoeuvre since he was aware that filming was taking place.
From BBC β Apr. 22, 2026
She wishes Marco had accompanied Chandresh, though she doubts he would answer any of her questions, if he consented to speaking to her at all.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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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 β Nov. 2, 2026
And beyond consenting to, that affirms that entitlement.
From Slate β 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 β Sep. 11, 2026
In a secure and mutually consenting relationship, of course.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 13, 2026
Now, being a man, I 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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