assent

When in 2023 the chance comes to race solo around the world—a journey of some 27,000 miles—Ms. Brauer, 29, gets the cheerful assent of her sponsors, and the planning begins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● May 7, 2026

MPs supported the government's motion by 272 votes to 64, with the bill now returning to the Lords for what looks to be the final consideration before it receives royal assent and becomes law.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

There are murmurs of assent and then, to my horror, I hear the pack heading toward me.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

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

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 White House named the price — 15% of their revenues from such sales — and the companies assented willingly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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

Still, I querulously assented, and, upon his order, went to seek a knife.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

I mean to say something sharp, or nonchalant, but the only sound that escapes me is an assenting noise, squeezed tight by my swollen throat.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth