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authorization

[aw-ther-uh-zay-shuhn] / ˌɔ θər əˈzeɪ ʃən /


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The company said Tuesday the authorization allows it to buy back shares at any time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have encouraged "pacing" - or slowing down - development after models created by all three were found to have escaped their testing environments or taken actions without authorization.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

For comparison, Micron’s last authorization of $10 billion in May 2018 was about two quarters’ worth of gross profit at the time.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Nvidia’s signal on this front came in a Sept. 28 presentation detailing a $150 billion increase to its share-buyback program, which brought its total authorization to $235 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“But the clinic people sent me over here. They say they can’t give me the papers without authorization from this office.”

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Some constraints may be buried in the fine print, like services that require prior authorizations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The bipartisan Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act would move Medicare Advantage prior authorizations to an electronic system and require quicker response times and greater transparency from insurers.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

Under the program, which launched in January, prior authorizations for about 6.4 million Americans enrolled in traditional Medicare in New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and Washington state are being carried out by AI.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Some took the announcement that work authorizations remained in place — made late Wednesday by U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

But how were these State or Government authorizations, called charters, to be obtained?

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus


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