green light
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On Tuesday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced that it had given the green light for equity perpetual futures contracts to begin trading in the U.S. for the first time.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
At 8:36 a.m., an operator gave the Renfe train a green light to resume travel at full speed, even though the Iryo train remained stationary farther down the track.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Now that Jackdaw has the green light, it is set to start supplying gas to homes and businesses within weeks, the government said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
"This is called back-energy transfer: it means that the energy that would have been emitted by the erbium ions as green light instead gets bounced back to the ytterbium relay and never reaches the surface."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
My mother nodded, almost as if she were giving him the green light to acknowledge me.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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