1
as in admitted
to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly
you will grant that she is difficult to work with
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2
as in conferred
to give the ownership or benefit of (something) formally or publicly
by the power vested in me, I grant you the keys to the city
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as in accepted
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Recent Examples of granted
Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2025
The pair dug a lot of the holes this program finds itself in right now, granted.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2025
His is the talent too easily taken for granted, the excellence assumed, always there.
—Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Sticking to the plan With the environmental review complete, the project moves to its next and final regulatory phase before the full permit is granted.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2025
Eventually, the lamprey program was granted an exemption from the DOGE cuts, and allowed to restaff.
—Katie Thornton, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
The specific number is about $912 million, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, who were granted anonymity because the details are private.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Then in August, the administration granted export licenses for certain Nvidia and AMD chips to China in exchange for 15% of the revenues.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
Nothing should be taken for granted, but with only Syracuse, NC State, Boston College and Pitt left on their ACC slate, the Yellow Jackets would likely have to absorb two significant upsets to miss out on the ACC title game.
—Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Of those requests, the agency granted 170,084 exclusions and denied 59,134, with 44,325 exclusion requests rejected or withdrawn during the process.
—Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2025
The pair dug a lot of the holes this program finds itself in right now, granted.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2025
His is the talent too easily taken for granted, the excellence assumed, always there.
—Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Sticking to the plan With the environmental review complete, the project moves to its next and final regulatory phase before the full permit is granted.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2025
Eventually, the lamprey program was granted an exemption from the DOGE cuts, and allowed to restaff.
—Katie Thornton, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
The specific number is about $912 million, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, who were granted anonymity because the details are private.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Then in August, the administration granted export licenses for certain Nvidia and AMD chips to China in exchange for 15% of the revenues.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
Nothing should be taken for granted, but with only Syracuse, NC State, Boston College and Pitt left on their ACC slate, the Yellow Jackets would likely have to absorb two significant upsets to miss out on the ACC title game.
—Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for granted
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This fall's incoming class is the first under Direct Admit Wisconsin, in which high school students are automatically admitted into universities based on their grades at the end of their junior year.—
Kelly Meyerhofer,
jsonline.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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Alex also admitted in court in 2023 to taking more than 2,000 milligrams of painkillers daily, prior to the 2021 murders.—
Julia Moore,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The newspaper was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 1941 for its campaign, the first time that a major award was conferred for an environmental story.—
Robert Wyss,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025
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The parties have conferred with Mishkin for months without reaching common ground.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Make a deposit up to $400 with an accepted payment method.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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The letter also called for the return of mandatory standardized testing in university admissions and for universities to report the anonymous scores and grades of accepted and rejected students.—
Helen Rummel,
AZCentral.com,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Masked trio threatens homeowners in horrifying video McGuire said investigators received numerous tips after the story garnered national attention, and later contacted one of the suspects, an adult female, who confessed to her role and that of other family members in the case.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
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While being held at Bridgewater State Hospital for psychiatric evaluation, DeSalvo was placed in the same ward as George Nassar, who later claimed DeSalvo had privately confessed to being the Boston Strangler.—
Jane LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Watford’s Othmane Maamma was awarded that very honour by FIFA.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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The winner is typically awarded exemptions into professional golf tournaments, including the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour, DP World Tour and more.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Does a user keep expressing linguistic markers throughout a given conversation?—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Bing, for its part, went off the rails early on, prompting Microsoft to scale back both its personality and the number of questions users could ask it in a given conversation.—
Will Oremus,
Washington Post,
5 June 2023
Verb
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By all means, this committee should aim to commemorate the freeing of slaves, Moore acknowledged, once the nationalists had taken over in earnest.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Sudan’s army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who is also the de facto head of state, acknowledged the rebels’ capture of El Fasher.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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That is to say, there is no one pure ur-movie, unblemished and incontestable.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Despite the discouraging tendency these days to see everything through a political prism, the science itself is incontestable and apolitical: Climate change is caused by human activity, primarily the use fossil fuels, like coal, oil and gas.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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“Granted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/granted. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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