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

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

After all, when you think as highly of yourself as he does, approbation from others is totally unnecessary.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2022

“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

“I with cheerfulness give this testimony of my approbation of their proceedings,” Clarkson wrote.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy