assent

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

Mahama's predecessor, former President Nana Akufo-Addo, failed to give his assent to that version of the bill before leaving office last year.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

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

From Salon ● May 7, 2026

I do not believe, had he asked her even a year later, she would have given her assent.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

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

The first thing Fairchild mentions — and Wheeldon immediately assents — is how the space itself changes the nature of the experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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

A gazette from the Senate Secretariat stated that they were "deemed to have been assented to by the president".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023

He liked to entice me into lies: “Gorgeous necktie,” he’d say, “that’s a Hermès, isn’t it?”—and then, when I assented, reach quickly across the lunch table and expose my poor tie’s humble lineage.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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