ratify

Confirmation can elevate the official; it cannot ratify the paper.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

Waller had obliged, insinuating Warsh was importing outside authority to ratify long-held views and dressing them up as discovery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Samsung Electronics' labour union is expected to announce Wednesday whether chip workers voted to ratify a wage deal that would deliver massive AI-linked bonuses and helped avert a major strike.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

"So I think we are coming to good solutions that we are going to ratify hopefully today, in order to evolve, because it's only three races in."

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

His attack was on those who wrote history to ratify and glorify the present, particularly present political arrangements.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The dollar “probably can keep selling off because it kind of ratifies the current narrative,” said Brent Donnelly, president of Spectra Markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

“What Mike White does is so insanely strong that when he ratifies an actor — or gives someone their moment — it’s just so deeply impressive,” Perkins says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025

"The Public Ministry ratifies its commitment to the relentless fight against corruption," Attorney General Tarek William Saab wrote on Twitter.

From Reuters ● Mar. 31, 2023

Assuming the parliament ratifies Finland's accession beforehand, the government in Helsinki still has to secure the support of Hungary.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2023

It has been said that codes derived from the moral sense have no stability since this sense ratifies one principle at one time and place, another at another.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams

MAL was one of four blood group systems ratified during the period covered by the organization's 2026 terminology report, alongside ER, CD36 and ATP11C.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Women couldn’t vote until the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Workers at “World of Warcraft” video game developer Blizzard Entertainment have ratified union contracts after two years of bargaining.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

WestJet flight attendants ratified a new three-year collective agreement following a strike that grounded hundreds of flights in Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

And Pawhuska is still the capital of the vibrant Osage Nation, which, in 2006, ratified a new constitution.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents about 4,400 flight attendants, said Monday about 90% voted in favor of ratifying the new agreement, which takes effect Jan. 1.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

When ratifying the amendment in 1868, however, Congress explicitly recognized that it would also apply to the American-born offspring of immigrants.

From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026

The Election Commission confirmed the victory of caretaker Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul's conservative Bhumjaithai party on Wednesday, ratifying most of the vote results.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

In 2002, Burton carried legislation ratifying the prison officers’ contract negotiated by the Davis administration granting officers a raise of roughly 35% over five years, and boosting their pensions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2025

True enough, the constitutional arguments represented a consolidation of points made in Philadelphia in 1787 and then in several state ratifying conventions.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis