- a variation of OK.
okay
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Call centre employee Arabella Paulino, 48, said: "My girls were saying to me it's scary. But it will be okay."
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
"The doctor sat me down and said, 'right, okay, we've looked at your scans and we've found 38 parasites on your brain'," said Lowri.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Mike Bland said he could not confirm where the officer was hit, but the officer is expected to be okay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
“Are you doing okay? They’re coming after you hard.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
“So I decided that you’d be okay with me passing Libby your number to pass to Rhys.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Police Chief Jim McDonnell okayed the removal of the officers after learning of the specific allegations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
Judge Barbier said that’s not how he was led to believe the settlement he okayed would work.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
In Bolivia the government only recently okayed a new project by a Chinese consortium.
From Reuters ● Apr. 24, 2023
They claim a newly published email confirmed John Swinney okayed the deal.
From BBC ● May 12, 2022
Supervising this entire phase of the operation was a medical officer with a flair for accounting who okayed pulses and checked the figures of the tally clerk.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
A judge’s order okaying a $55,000 payout to a former staffer in the third case noted in court records that the settlement, which included attorney fees, should not be taken as an admission of wrongdoing.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
If anything the editor okaying it makes it even worse, because it's like, "Did you not read my whole book that would explain why this is missing the point?"
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2020
With NFL owners okaying his four-year, $200 million contract extension last week as Protector of the Shield, Goodell will cross the half-billion mark in earnings since becoming commissioner.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2017
Department of State, swamped with 1,000 passport applications a day, was okaying 80% of them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Set up under the Budget & Accounting Act of 1921 was the office of the Comptroller General, with twofold duty of okaying Government expenditures before they are made and auditing them afterwards.*
From Time Magazine Archive
