granted

Example Sentences

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The squad will be granted extended family time over the weekend in Boston, something that was not such a luxury in Germany two years ago.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Security is omnipresent, and the comforts we take for granted in the West can vanish without warning—as when my upscale hotel couldn’t muster a hot shower.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Earlier this year, the California Fish and Game Commission granted threatened species status to six mountain lion populations to try to boost their chances of survival.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Texas counties only possess powers explicitly granted by the Legislature, he wrote, and Hood County did not even have powers to require a concept plan.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

Everything that philosophers had taken for granted for millennia was called into doubt.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife