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

Receiving an assent to this, the curtains were drawn and the lamps turned on.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

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

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

Rubio swiftly assented to calls from European leaders to meet in Geneva to review the Witkoff-Kushner-Dmitriev plan.

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 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

The man had been through this drill two or three days before, and assented.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

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