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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

It’s rare that candidates are nominated through conventions, which are often opportunities for endless speeches—much like the quadrennial political conventions that national parties hold to ratify their nominees.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

On January 6, Nebraska became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment, making it illegal to manufacture, sell, or transport liquor.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

Its logic reaches the labor board, the merit board, and the trade commission and ratifies the removals the court had already waved through at the consumer-product, surface-transportation, and employment agencies.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026

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

It's also unclear how the Senate, which ratifies treaties, would respond if the US reached some sort of agreement with Denmark to take over part or all of Greenland.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 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

They do not seem to understand that although Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, etc., have ratified the amendment, the women of these States will not vote until the 36th State ratifies.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Ida Husted Harper

The United States signed the Rome Statute establishing the ICC but never ratified the treaty.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Stern: After the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865, Turner’s mother brought a habeas petition under the federal Constitution.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

The actors’ guild SAG-AFTRA in June ratified a new four-year contract with special protections against synthetic performers, and the union has backed a national bill designed to protect individuals from unauthorized, AI-generated digital replicas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

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

Each time a state ratified the 19th Amendment, Alice Paul sewed a star on the purple, white, and gold “ratification banner” she kept at the National Woman's Party headquarters.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

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

Some EU leaders have said they might hold off on ratifying last year’s trade deal with the U.S., which cuts tariffs on many U.S. exports to Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 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

Edmund Randolph made it abundantly clear at the Virginia ratifying convention just what “domestic interests” Mason had in mind.

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