as in official
ordered or allowed by those in authority
an authorized biography of the former president
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1
as in enabled
to give official or legal power to
only the school nurse is authorized to give any necessary shots
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2
as in entitled
to give a right to
this pass will authorize you to go backstage
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3
as in approved
to give official acceptance of as satisfactory
a system for sound reproduction that has been authorized as meeting the electronic industry's highest standards
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Recent Examples of authorized
Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
Owners will be notified by mail and instructed to take their cars to an authorized BMW dealer to address the issue.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 1 Oct. 2025
Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Congress has authorized upgrades, but recurring budget brinkmanship keeps throwing sand in the gears.
—Imran Khalid, Boston Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
The elections division launched an investigation and reached out to their partners, including the printer and authorized carrier.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
Owners will be notified by mail and instructed to take their cars to an authorized BMW dealer to address the issue.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
The 27-foot bronze and marble monument, which Congress authorized in 1898 and dedicated in 1901, was located near Judiciary Square.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Congress has authorized upgrades, but recurring budget brinkmanship keeps throwing sand in the gears.
—Imran Khalid, Boston Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for authorized
Adjective
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The details surrounding the case, which became the subject of Netflix’s 2015 documentary Making a Murderer, remain unclear, with no official cause of death apart from homicide and no eyewitnesses to the crime.—
Nicole Briese,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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The official trailer is nearly three minutes long and is stuffed with bombastic special effects, intense emotion (a lot of tears), plenty of action and one mean Vecna.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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The metals can then be reused, but the intricate atomic arrangement that once enabled high-energy storage is lost in the process.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 2025
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Leaving essential features like Find My iPhone or Emergency Calls & SOS enabled under System Services ensures your phone can still help locate or protect you if it's lost, even with other location options turned off.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Though Angel Stadium would have the capacity, per an existing lease agreement in place through 2038, the baseball team would likely be entitled to reimbursement of any admission and parking taxes collected, city officials said.—
Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
29 Oct. 2025
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Bleiberg Entertainment will launch sales at the AFM on the spy thriller entitled Frequency of Fear, which is currently in post-production.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
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These are medications approved to treat Type 2 diabetes, but have also been used in recent years for weight loss.—
Daniel S. Levine,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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The compact was approved in 2017 and took effect in early 2018, according to court filings.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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If anything, Doty seemed empowered by her work in a rowdy rock club, married to musician Chip Z’Nuff.—
Will Tizard,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
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That struggle empowered him to serve others in similar ways — including with his mayoral run.—
Leah Olajide,
Freep.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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The enhanced subsidies raised the income limit on who qualified, expanding eligibility to many middle-class people.—
Berkeley Lovelace Jr,
NBC news,
31 Oct. 2025
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In 2023, this condition, which qualified as a disability, turned him into the target of abuse and ridicule.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
29 Oct. 2025
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The only way to assure that a Constitution possessing such powers was ratified was to keep slavery off the agenda.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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The amendment was ratified in 1951 after Franklin Roosevelt died shortly after his inauguration for an unprecedented fourth term.—
Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Oct. 2025
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Repicturing Rural, a new report from Getty Images and Land O’ Lakes, reveals that despite one in five of Americans living on rural land, just 5% of popular visuals licensed from Getty Images are set in rural places, and only 16% of rural images include people.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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The English-language feature project was first announced by New Line in 2019, and was the first time Sanrio had licensed film rights to the classic cat.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Authorized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/authorized. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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