ratify

Confirmation can elevate the official; it cannot ratify the paper.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

"So I think we are coming to good solutions that we are going to ratify hopefully today, in order to evolve, because it's only three races in."

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

The Board of Education also must ratify tentative agreements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

Vietnam goes to the polls on Sunday to elect members of the National Assembly, the country's top legislative body that serves mainly to ratify decisions by the ruling Communist Party.

From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026

Still another reason to care about usage is to ratify a certain attitude to language.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Its logic reaches the labor board, the merit board, and the trade commission and ratifies the removals the court had already waved through at the consumer-product, surface-transportation, and employment agencies.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026

The dollar “probably can keep selling off because it kind of ratifies the current narrative,” said Brent Donnelly, president of Spectra Markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

“What Mike White does is so insanely strong that when he ratifies an actor — or gives someone their moment — it’s just so deeply impressive,” Perkins says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025

After Turkey's parliament ratifies, it would be approved by Erdogan and then published in the country's Official Gazette.

From Reuters ● Mar. 31, 2023

With the poor I make my treaty; and the heart of man Sets the broad seal of its allegiance there, And ratifies the compact.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller

In a statement on social media, Alalshikh thanked those at Derby County for their involvement in the proposed deal, but suggested the time it took to be ratified meant he had to withdraw.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Stern: After the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865, Turner’s mother brought a habeas petition under the federal Constitution.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

The actors’ guild SAG-AFTRA in June ratified a new four-year contract with special protections against synthetic performers, and the union has backed a national bill designed to protect individuals from unauthorized, AI-generated digital replicas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

It took the 15th Amendment, ratified more than 1½ years later, to enfranchise black Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Under its terms, Congress would not limit the foreign slave trade until at least 1808—twenty years after the Constitution was ratified, or accepted by the necessary number of states.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Whatever else this enigmatic phrase may cover, it is plain from British constitutional history, the statements of those involved in drafting and ratifying the U.S.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

The Election Commission confirmed the victory of caretaker Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul's conservative Bhumjaithai party on Wednesday, ratifying most of the vote results.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

Nations had been scheduled to vote on ratifying the plan this week, but the ballot was postponed for a year after a lobbying campaign from the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

In 2002, Burton carried legislation ratifying the prison officers’ contract negotiated by the Davis administration granting officers a raise of roughly 35% over five years, and boosting their pensions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2025

The old Antifederalist coalition that Madison had opposed so effectively at the Virginia ratifying convention in 1788 believed with some justification that their cause had never really been defeated, merely outmaneuvered.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis