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OKs 1 of 2

noun

variants or okays

plural of OK

as in approvals

an acceptance of something as satisfactory our supervisor gave his OK on the project, so we can go ahead with it

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OKs

2 of 2

verb

variants or okays

present tense third-person singular of OK

as in approves

to give official acceptance of as satisfactory a judge will have to OK the search warrant

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as in accepts

to have a favorable opinion of I'm glad that my friends OK'd my choice of girlfriend

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Noun

People were working faster, but the same handoffs, approvals and organizational boundaries remained.

— Rahul Saluja, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Paramount now has won approvals by nearly 70 regulators for the industry-reshaping deal.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of approvals

Verb

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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Debounce delay is the time between when a key on a mechanical keyboard is pressed and when the keyboard accepts the keypress as an input.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026
Put another way, roughly two employees are weighing an exit for every one who accepts a job at a company.

— Kristin Stoller, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of accepts

Noun

The rise of social media does these overzealous Oscar hopefuls no favors.

— Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 2 Oct. 2026
Now, with global rules under heavy attack, there are fewer bulwarks against domestic interests seeking privileged access to public contracts, regulatory favors, or political protection.

— MATIAS SPEKTOR, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of favors

Verb

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

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