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granting

ADJECTIVE
permitting
Synonyms
STRONG
allowing authorizing letting licensing sanctioning tolerating
WEAK
lenient permissive
CONJUNCTION
although
Synonyms
WEAK
admitting albeit despite despite the fact even if even supposing granting all this in spite of much as notwithstanding still supposing though when whereas while yet
NOUN
agreement
Synonyms
STRONGEST
accord arrangement compliance compromise concession mediation reconciliation understanding
STRONG
accession accommodation accordance adjustment affiliation affinity alliance amity approving arbitration assenting bargaining compatibility concert concord concordance conformity congruity consistency correspondence harmony similarity suitableness sympathy union unison verification
WEAK
acceding acknowledging authorizing complying concurring endorsing ratifying verifying
Antonyms
STRONGEST
denial difference disagreement dissension dissent fight refusal
STRONG
discord disharmony dislike dissimilarity disunity divorce hatred hostility incompatibility separation
NOUN
giving
Synonyms
STRONGEST
offering
STRONG
allowing awarding bequeathing ceding conferring contributing conveying dispensing distributing donating endowing expending furnishing imparting permitting presenting remitting supplying transferring yielding
WEAK
doling out handing out passing out
Antonyms
WEAK
appropriating getting taking
NOUN
issue
Synonyms
STRONG
circulation delivery dispersion dissemination issuance issuing publication supply supplying
WEAK
sending out
Antonyms
WEAK
cause origin parent source

Example Sentences

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Granting urban status to 200 million rural migrants, meanwhile, could raise the consumption-to-GDP ratio by another 0.6 percentage points.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

Granting Roberts-Smith strict, conditional bail on Friday, Judge Greg Grogin said it would be "not weeks or months, but years - possibly years and years" before Roberts-Smith appears in the dock.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Granting the ability would also dramatically shorten the timeline for South Korea to produce a nuclear weapon—if Seoul ever chose to go down that route.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Granting that regret was a possibility, we still decided that it was more important to be affirming and supportive of the choices our daughter made today.

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2025

Granting them authority over newly defined regions would help in two ways.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby