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assent

[uh-sent] / əˈsɛnt /




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It then received royal assent and is now law, Commons deputy speaker Judith Cummins told MPs on Wednesday.

From BBC Jul. 15, 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

When his SolarCity solar energy company ran into financial trouble in 2016, he merged it into Tesla with the assent of a compliant Tesla board.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2026

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

From Salon May 7, 2026

Without waiting for my assent, Jonathan Haas slid the fabric into my hand.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

“False endorsement and misappropriation, FanDuel could insist, are inapplicable to a personalized video setting where the video’s talent voluntarily assents in exchange for compensation,” McCann wrote.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

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

From Washington Times Jul. 5, 2023

Now, it’s true that not everyone on the subreddit assents to its spiteful premise: One exhausted nurse wrote a long post about how much one of her anti-vax patients suffered, as an attempt at counterbalance.

From Slate Sep. 21, 2021

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

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

The new law may still face amendments and must be assented to by the president to become law.

From BBC Nov. 24, 2023

Kamen, with a surfeit of empathy and a lack of foresight, assented.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

All of the queen’s, and now the king’s, functions are performed by a governor general acting as their direct representative — assenting to all legislation and determining who becomes Prime Minister.

From New York Times May 6, 2023

I could not reconcile this—the notion of assenting to a false inferiority seemed slightly dishonest to me—but it was clear to me that they could and I respected that.

From Slate Nov. 2, 2020

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

From Seattle Times Sep. 27, 2020

Nobody assenting to this proposition, Mr. Davis turned and held up a finger.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie




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