the go-ahead
noun
: permission to do something
We've finally been given the go-ahead for the project.
The company received/got the go-ahead to manufacture the new drug.
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Three days and one phone call with the Big Ten later and Lincoln Riley still doesn’t understand how officials reversed USC’s decisive fourth-down, goal-line stop and instead gave Minnesota the go-ahead touchdown that changed the complexion of the conference title race.
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
Castellanos hit a home run in the sixth inning to tie the ball game at 3-3, and then scored the go-ahead run in the eighth that put Philadelphia ahead 6-4.
—Johannes Sasay-Wada, CNN, 7 Oct. 2024
Sterling Shepard scored the go-ahead touchdown from three yards out on 3rd-and-goal.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
Initially, a federal judge in Georgia allowed a temporary restraining order on the program which aims to forgive loans for over 25 million Americans to expire, giving the Education Department the go-ahead to move forward.
—Melissa Noel, Essence, 4 Oct. 2024
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
Castellanos hit a home run in the sixth inning to tie the ball game at 3-3, and then scored the go-ahead run in the eighth that put Philadelphia ahead 6-4.
—Johannes Sasay-Wada, CNN, 7 Oct. 2024
Sterling Shepard scored the go-ahead touchdown from three yards out on 3rd-and-goal.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
Initially, a federal judge in Georgia allowed a temporary restraining order on the program which aims to forgive loans for over 25 million Americans to expire, giving the Education Department the go-ahead to move forward.
—Melissa Noel, Essence, 4 Oct. 2024
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“The go-ahead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20go-ahead. Accessed 25 Oct. 2024.
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