confirmation
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To avoid creating a vacancy after a failed confirmation, a justice could make retirement conditional on the appointment of a successor, as Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Stephen Breyer did.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
She told MarketWatch in a phone interview Friday that she’d be watching whether the Nasdaq-100 remained below that support level this week as a potential confirmation of its breakdown.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Reeves added that at the forthcoming UK-EU summit, she hoped for confirmation of the youth mobility scheme she has been pushing for since she was in office.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
A Portuguese citizen who worked on one of the trains is among the dead, Portugal's government said on Friday in the first confirmation of a foreign victim.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Because he said nothing at first, his silence became a confirmation that Baby would die.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Booking.com said it had "visible reminders to not click on links customers are not confident about, and booking confirmations also provide further guidance, including details of the agreed payment schedule".
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
If those confirmations arise, we will act on them.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Over his decadeslong career, he has played crucial roles in the confirmations of Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Bubba Weiler’s touching play follows two altar boys as they prepare for their confirmations and grapple with challenges to their beliefs and their relationship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Howard began ordering multiple trainloads of cars, some three hundred at a time, and printing his orders and the company shipping confirmations in full-page ads.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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