approbation
Example Sentences
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It later came out that National City’s efforts to lend money on stocks had the Federal Reserve’s internal approbation, not its opposition.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
He'll do a lot of damage before he's finished — but he will never get the popular approbation he craves, now or in the future.
From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025
It’s associated with pleasure and the expectation or experience of a reward, which can include the surmounting of a threat “such as overcoming fear, winning a race, receiving respect and approbation from others,” Spiegel says.
From National Geographic • Oct. 16, 2023
“Fame is wanting to have social approbation and we wanted to say that everything serves fame in the public sphere right now,” Ms. Fulton Brown said.
From Washington Times • Oct. 1, 2021
Despite their welcome, I could not bring myself to speak much at our meal, so sensible am I of my youth and inexperience, so anxious am I for their approbation.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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