assent
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Along the way Mr. Warsh has some hope of securing some minimal degree of assent to reforms from other Fed policymakers, influential academics and investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 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
He made vague references to visiting her in Lagos and she made vague sounds of assent.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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“False endorsement and misappropriation, FanDuel could insist, are inapplicable to a personalized video setting where the video’s talent voluntarily assents in exchange for compensation,” McCann wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Hungary has signaled it will back Sweden’s bid once Turkey assents.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
Now, it’s true that not everyone on the subreddit assents to its spiteful premise: One exhausted nurse wrote a long post about how much one of her anti-vax patients suffered, as an attempt at counterbalance.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2021
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
Someone assents with a shout, and someone else joins in.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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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
Moderna resisted, but agreed to provide test subjects with enhanced disclosures on its informed consent form, to which the FDA assented.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 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
“I know she is,” assented Mr. Pontellier; “sometimes, not often.”
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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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
I could not reconcile this—the notion of assenting to a false inferiority seemed slightly dishonest to me—but it was clear to me that they could and I respected that.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2020
That’s because assenting to a religion is not like choosing to be a Republican or a Democrat.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 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
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