consent

A person’s information can’t be released or shared without their consent, subject to limited exceptions.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

"Opting people in by default is not consent," a user said in one of the tamer responses to Twitch's announcement on X.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Calls will only be permitted if they relate to a contract a person has already entered into or the company has obtained prior consent to be contacted for marketing.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

The companies plan to seek resource consent for a 250-megawatt data center near the site of Contact’s closed Taranaki Combined Cycle gas power plant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

I consent to that second point to avoid further argument.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

By claiming that “it is unconstitutional for biological parents to transfer their parental rights,” Jay told me, Uthmeier’s argument “sweeps in” adoption consents, too.

From Slate ● May 13, 2026

In a recent update, the company has secured five transmission planning decisions since November, and will continue to focus on securing remaining consents for its projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

And he can remain on our soil only when the sovereign — in the U.S., that’s “We the People” — consents to it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025

"Technology has made it possible for them to be created by anyone, anywhere, at anytime, regardless of whether she consents," she added.

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2024

He fumbles with the lighter before it consents to spark.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

The court also acquitted them of abusing Graven's psychological frailty, as he had told police prior to his death that he had consented to the stunts, Hamadi's lawyer told Reuters.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Although 88 agents consented to the forensic imaging of their personal phones, Robbins said none of those had been imaged at the time of the hearing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

They wrote For the People who consented to be governed by it, which includes you.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

That arrangement quietly splits the person who is being watched from the person who consented to the watching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

He never seemed to single her out, but sometimes he consented when she suggested that they walk along the green in the twilight.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

If a journalist wants an on-the-record interview with someone in Objection’s orbit, they are asked to sign an agreement consenting in advance to the tribunal’s jurisdiction.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

“If you want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults. We can finish it here,” the U.S. senator said during a congressional hearing.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2026

It would later emerge in evidence that investigating Warwickshire officers had agreed with him that they could hear her "laughing and consenting".

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026

It’s not a Motor City miracle but just another example of the magic that happens between freely consenting consumers and producers in an open market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

We helped the sick to their feet, and to them donated our own bedrolls, consenting to go without blankets for one night.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson