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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

The Ministry of Justice as so far declined to grant royal assent on the basis that key safeguards including around coercion had not been written directly into the Isle of Man bill.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 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

From around the table came a general murmur of assent.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

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

Despite the protests of Stoker’s clever young wife, Florence, against leaving Dublin, where “everything is laid out before you like a suit on a bed,” Stoker promptly assents.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2020

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

Presidents have done so 132 times; each time, Congress has assented or at least not objected in any tangible way.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

The prosecutors said they played “no role in ICE’s decisions, which defendant assented to, or even knew about those decisions beforehand.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026

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

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2023

The gods assented, well pleased with the two.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

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

There was a fearful rumble of assenting and the room grew quiet.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool