authorize
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The deal was reached shortly after workers there voted to authorize a strike, just days before the U.S. national team’s opening World Cup match.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Unite Here Local 11, the union representing SoFi Stadium workers, votes to authorize a strike less than a week before the venue will host a World Cup game.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
The hospital would not authorize a transfer or arrange to send her in an ambulance, and it offered no explanation for why.
From Salon • May 27, 2026
Did he authorize Kushner and Witkoff to put it on the table as the basis for talks?
From Slate • May 7, 2026
“Unfortunately our present leadership won’t authorize a quest to look for them—” “Because Reyna isn’t stupid,” Hazel said. “—so we have only a few remaining scraps from the books,” Octavian continued.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing authorize
Quartering Act (1765)
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for January 1–January 7, 2022
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Maryland Toleration Act (1649)
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