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Throughout our conversation, in fact, the pair chuckles, nods along to each other’s answers, interjects sounds of assent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

But the bills never received presidential assent and did not become law.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Or perhaps the money could require states to assent to damage suits against their prison systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Once Jacqueline Kennedy nodded her assent, Walton eyed the ground and indicated the place to be staked.

From Salon ● May 7, 2026

There was a murmur of assent from the men.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

To win, he assents to the dominion of dark forces beyond his control.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2024

Hungary has signaled it will back Sweden’s bid once Turkey assents.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

When a PhD candidate named Charles Walker pleads for late admission to his graduate seminar, Stoner assents with reluctance.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2015

The first thing Fairchild mentions — and Wheeldon immediately assents — is how the space itself changes the nature of the experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2015

Someone assents with a shout, and someone else joins in.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

Elliot notes, a bit melodramatically, that while Erika “led me down the path to my destruction,” he actively assented to everything that happened to him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Moderna resisted, but agreed to provide test subjects with enhanced disclosures on its informed consent form, to which the FDA assented.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

Rubio swiftly assented to calls from European leaders to meet in Geneva to review the Witkoff-Kushner-Dmitriev plan.

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025

A gazette from the Senate Secretariat stated that they were "deemed to have been assented to by the president".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023

He was anxious to see if the wheel worked, but at the same time “would gladly have assented to postpone the trial.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Isaac Mwaura, spokesperson for the current Kenyan government, told the BBC that the authorities were "very co-operative with the protesters and acceded to the demands, including the president not assenting to the finance bill".

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2024

That’s certainly how the characters feel in the early episodes, quietly assenting to the fate suggested in their bad marriages, puzzling children and unfulfilling jobs.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2023

That’s because assenting to a religion is not like choosing to be a Republican or a Democrat.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2020

Seven months later, he blamed his financial woes on a nationwide “depression,” refused to admit that the Taj was bankrupt, and then signed a four-page document assenting to bankruptcy proceedings.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2020

“So!” said she, assenting with her head, but not looking at me.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens