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The Board of Education also must ratify tentative agreements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

Sir Keir said this year's summit "will not just ratify existing commitments made at last year's summit" but would be "more ambitious".

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026

Vietnam goes to the polls on Sunday to elect members of the National Assembly, the country's top legislative body that serves mainly to ratify decisions by the ruling Communist Party.

From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026

If optimists are right, and tariff effects fade while services inflation also moderates, expect the coming months to ratify CPI’s more sanguine picture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

Still another reason to care about usage is to ratify a certain attitude to language.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

TD Cowen analyst Jaret Seiberg said in a research note the Fed "likely expects both the banks and the merchants to challenge any final...rule even if that final proposal simply ratifies the status quo."

From Reuters ● Oct. 25, 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 Williams, C. M.

The treaty seeks to ban all nuclear explosion tests on Earth, but several "nuclear-capable" states have not ratified it yet.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Both Dobbs and Barbara involve the same amendment, ratified by the same actors.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026

Constitution, adopted in 1787 but not finally ratified until the summer of 1788, is by far the oldest national constitution in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

The newly ratified contract provides some stability in Hollywood, about three years after a summer of strikes led by Writers Guild of America and performers guild SAG-AFTRA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

As Congress ratified the Thirteenth Amendment forbidding slavery in the United States, sometime before the end of 1865, the Kanes cut off Maggie’s meager support altogether.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

European lawmakers are in the process of ratifying that treaty but haven’t yet codified it in law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 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

The debates in the ratifying conventions of the respective states only exposed the irreconcilable differences of opinion that the Constitution had so deftly bundled together.

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