authorize
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The union’s executive board is asking members to authorize an additional $3 million in spending in support of the measure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
It also would authorize the state to enter a partnership with an immunology and immunotherapy research institute selected by the California Department of Public Health and allocate half of the bond revenue to it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The sample is from JMSN’s song “Love Me,” who said on X that he did not authorize license of the song.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
New legislation would be required to authorize any such steps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
What Priddy needed was a blanket legal order that would authorize him to sterilize a woman on explicitly eugenic grounds; one such test case would set the standard for a thousand.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Some banks will freeze accounts unless the owner authorizes transactions — why didn’t your bank do that in your case?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
A separate question is whether state law authorizes officials to remove Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., though his argument in the negative is hilarious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
By contrast, the Constitution explicitly authorizes Congress to establish federal agencies and define the scope of their mandate.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
The measure also authorizes security forces to clear roadblocks that had caused severe food, medical and fuel shortages in several cities.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
It also says the Bishop of Jerusalem of the Arab Episcopal Church authorizes it.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Brazil's Supreme Court on Monday authorized presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro to resume visiting his father Jair Bolsonaro under house arrest, as long as he does not involve him in campaigning.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Agents from Homeland Security Investigations executed a search warrant authorized by a federal judge, according to the Associated Press and The Washington Post.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
These relief orders temporarily exempt authorized trading venues and market makers from certain rules that previously prevented trading in digital tokens that represent shares of listed companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Condon said a price hasn’t been set, but a real estate expert familiar with the property but not authorized to speak about it publicly said the office and retail portion is worth about $160 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
During the 1740s the British War Office and Parliament commissioned two companies of colonial rangers and authorized more than a hundred men to serve in the Highland Rangers in Georgia.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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"Defendants shall not enter into, renew, or expand any agreement authorizing the development, creation, dissemination, placement, or airing of the challenged advertisements," Rochon said in the court order.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Enerflex is committing $15 million in 2026 capex and authorizing $85 million for facility expansions in 2027 to improve its Engineered Systems capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Nvidia has made another big splash, with its board of directors authorizing another $150 billion in stock buybacks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
The mosquito abatement district model has its roots in the early 20th century, and Utah was the third state to pass legislation authorizing the agencies.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
I motioned to my colleagues not to move, and I addressed the warder: “I would like you to produce the document from the commissioner of prisons authorizing our pictures to be taken.”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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