- present participle of consent.
consenting
Example Sentences
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Saddened Observer: Consenting adults are free to date.
From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2021
Consenting to the reviews is now a routine part of gaining a security clearance, and the lawsuit also complained that even military employees without access to classified information face similar lifelong constraints.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2019
Consenting sexual activity between men over the age of 21 was only decriminalised in Scotland in 1981.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2018
Consenting adults do exist and may do whatever both freely consent to, even though both adulthood and consent are concepts easily abused and without any clear boundaries.
From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2017
Consenting to this, they had leisure to examine a hill in that neighbourhood, the face of which appeared white, and proved to be an immense cliff of salt, a specimen of which they brought in.
From An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 by Collins, David
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Vocabulary from Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" (1918)
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