Showing Results for "granting"

granting

ADJECTIVE

permitting

Synonyms

STRONG

allowing authorizing letting licensing sanctioning tolerating

WEAK

lenient permissive

CONJUNCTION

although

Synonyms

WEAK

admitting albeit despite despite the fact even if even supposing granting all this in spite of much as notwithstanding still supposing though when whereas while yet

NOUN

agreement

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accord arrangement compliance compromise concession mediation reconciliation understanding

STRONG

accession accommodation accordance adjustment affiliation affinity alliance amity approving arbitration assenting bargaining compatibility concert concord concordance conformity congruity consistency correspondence harmony similarity suitableness sympathy union unison verification

WEAK

acceding acknowledging authorizing complying concurring endorsing ratifying verifying

Antonyms

STRONGEST

denial difference disagreement dissension dissent fight refusal

STRONG

discord disharmony dislike dissimilarity disunity divorce hatred hostility incompatibility separation

NOUN

giving

Synonyms

STRONGEST

offering

STRONG

allowing awarding bequeathing ceding conferring contributing conveying dispensing distributing donating endowing expending furnishing imparting permitting presenting remitting supplying transferring yielding

WEAK

doling out handing out passing out

Antonyms

WEAK

appropriating getting taking

NOUN

issue

Synonyms

STRONG

circulation delivery dispersion dissemination issuance issuing publication supply supplying

WEAK

sending out

Antonyms

WEAK

cause origin parent source

Example Sentences

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Brindle went on to say that it was "very difficult to tell at the outset when granting asylum as to whether somebody is going to go on to commit crime or not".

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

He pointed to a 1999 state law granting Hood County’ special powers to protect the watershed feeding Lake Granbury and the Brazos River in unincorporated areas.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

In Maine, enrollment in a program granting $500 to newborns switched from 40% to 100%.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

Google and Facebook both put in place supervoting shares before they went public, granting their founders a level of outsized control.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

For several weeks she troubled over it before granting conditional permission: ‘Just remember, you’re not a maid. I don’t want you wearing a uniform.’

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

granting

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