assent

Example Sentences

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Proxy military groups stayed out of the June 2025 war, apparently with Tehran’s assent.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

Disarmament there has frequently been conducted with Hezbollah’s assent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

King Charles's grandfather George VI granted royal assent to several bills when he visited Canada in 1939, but he never delivered a throne speech.

From BBC • May 27, 2025

Courts have long held that public school students are not entitled to immunity from ideas they find objectionable, particularly when those ideas are part of a curriculum designed to foster awareness, not assent.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2025

He whimpers assent, and I pat him on the back.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland