approbation
Example Sentences
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It later came out that National City’s efforts to lend money on stocks had the Federal Reserve’s internal approbation, not its opposition.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Hamilton ”advised the president to ‘embrace such reflections and sentiments as will wear well, progress in approbation with time and redound to future reputation.’
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025
It’s associated with pleasure and the expectation or experience of a reward, which can include the surmounting of a threat “such as overcoming fear, winning a race, receiving respect and approbation from others,” Spiegel says.
From National Geographic • Oct. 16, 2023
After Mr. Hinckley announced his “Redemption Tour,” similar approbation from the public led to cancelations at venues in New York City, Chicago, and Connecticut.
From Washington Times • Aug. 4, 2022
So terrified was I that some irregularity would interfere with enlistment—some unforeseen objection—I perhaps answered with too great an exactitude, too punctilious a range of detail—desperate for approbation.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
