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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Recent Examples of granted
Miranda Dunlap, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
The right to citizenship at birth has long been a bedrock principle in the United States, widely accepted to have been granted by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution in 1868.
—Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2025
That same year, Apollo Global Management granted copresidents Jim Zelter and Scott Kleinman the potential to earn more than $860 million in stock.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
Brashers was sentenced to 12 years in that case and granted parole four years later, according to Jackson.
—Jean Casarez, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
Shortly before Biden left office in January, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas granted an extension of the protections through October 2026 because the conditions in Venezuela warranted it.
—Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
Sax takes none of it for granted.
—Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2025
In 1795, at the height of Mexico’s colonial rule, the king of Spain granted the first license to distill agave wine, the period name for what’s now tequila, to the Cuervo family.
—David Shortell, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
The soldiers had taken his presence for granted.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
If a permit is granted, Conway estimated construction on the plant could begin in the early 2030s, and the plant could come online in 2038 or 2039.
—Miranda Dunlap, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
The right to citizenship at birth has long been a bedrock principle in the United States, widely accepted to have been granted by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution in 1868.
—Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2025
That same year, Apollo Global Management granted copresidents Jim Zelter and Scott Kleinman the potential to earn more than $860 million in stock.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
Brashers was sentenced to 12 years in that case and granted parole four years later, according to Jackson.
—Jean Casarez, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
Shortly before Biden left office in January, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas granted an extension of the protections through October 2026 because the conditions in Venezuela warranted it.
—Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
Sax takes none of it for granted.
—Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2025
In 1795, at the height of Mexico’s colonial rule, the king of Spain granted the first license to distill agave wine, the period name for what’s now tequila, to the Cuervo family.
—David Shortell, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
The soldiers had taken his presence for granted.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for granted
Verb
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The bank admitted fault in only 13 out of the 101 cases tracked by the organization, with the remaining 88 cases settled without admission of guilt.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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Swift also admitted on a recent SiriusXM Hits 1 interview that her mom, Andrea, thinks (or, honestly, prefers to believe) the song is just about superstitions and making your own luck.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Sanchez and Officer Matt Levasseur approached the emergency room entrance, conferred briefly with a security guard and then vanished through the door.—
Blake Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
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With an injection of the Pfizer vaccine Abrysvo at 32 to 36 weeks of gestation, a pregnant person develops antibodies against RSV that are conferred to the fetus through the placenta, giving babies crucial protection that lasts for the first six to nine months of life.—
Mark Kreidler,
Scientific American,
23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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
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Woolen leads Seattle with four accepted penalties (he’s also been flagged for face mask and holding).—
Michael-Shawn Dugar,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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While Gein confessed to killing Worden and Hogan, he was only convicted of the former's murder.—
Aya Al-Hakim,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
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The findings also effectively means the exoneration of four teenage boys initially implicated in the killings in 1999, two of whom confessed.—
Jean Casarez,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Also awarded was Jimmy Moses, chairman of the board at Little Rock real estate developer Moses Tucker Partners.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Oct. 2025
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The 2025 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded for the creation of metal-organic frameworks, molecular structures that can capture CO₂, filter pollutants from water, or trap moisture from desert air.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
8 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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Arlinda Hanna, 45, acknowledged DOGE measures were affecting swaths of people in Northern Virgina, even those who didn’t lose their job.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
7 Oct. 2025
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According to the police report, Gibson acknowledged that his dogs were responsible and admitted there had been ongoing issues with them escaping the property.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
7 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
Cite this Entry
“Granted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/granted. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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