approbates

verb

present tense third-person singular of approbate
as in approves
to give official acceptance of as satisfactory Congress must approbate the President's nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court

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  1. approves
  2. ratifies
  3. confirms
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  • Achieve approves debt consolidation loans for borrowers with a FICO® Score of 560 and Upstart’s underwriting model looks at hundreds of data points beyond your credit score, including education, work history, income and savings patterns.
    — Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
  • An agent that confidently approves the wrong payment, escalates an unstable interaction or quietly talks a user into a bad decision belongs in a different category.
    — Puneet Gaur, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of approves
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  • Instead, party task forces (known as work teams) are mobilized to draft the verdict, colleagues from their workplace endorse it, and then a committee at a higher level of administration ratifies it.
    — ANDREW MERTHA, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The private sector’s role is to build the commercial reality that policy later ratifies.
    — Hany Naeem, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of ratifies
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  • That second statement basically confirms it as fact to the other women.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
  • If the vacancy remains, district judges may appoint a prosecutor to serve until the president nominates and the Senate confirms a replacement.
    — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of confirms
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“Approbates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/approbates. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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