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noun

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Recent Examples of permit
Verb
Construction could last about four months in 2027 and about a month in 2028, depending on permit approval, Moreno wrote in an email. Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2025 Towing companies must now accept credit cards and cannot tow due to an expired parking permit or registration, reported The Connecticut Mirror. Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
Gaines and the other plaintiffs argued that the NCAA’s former policy of permitting trans athletes on a sport-by-sport basis violated Title IX, as well as the Equal Protection Clause and their right to bodily privacy. Abby Monteil, Them., 26 Sep. 2025 Gaines argues since Title IX guarantees men and women equal opportunities to compete in athletics, permitting transgender female athletes to compete deprives other women athletes. Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for permit
Recent Examples of Synonyms for permit
Verb
  • The Senate late on Tuesday rejected in a 55-45 vote a 7-week stopgap funding measure supported by Republicans that would have allowed the government to continue operations.
    Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • According to authorities Gibson allowed his large dogs to roam freely in the neighborhood and a neighbor’s ring camera caught footage moments after the alleged atatck.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • To facilitate even heating, let food rest for a few minutes after cooking.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But let’s see what happens when Mississippi State takes its show on the road in a game of significance (sorry, Southern Miss).
    Matt Hayes, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Promotion enabled Villa to access greater funds in the top flight, backed by owners Nassef Sawiris and Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Wes Edens, who took full control the year Villa won promotion.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The maps of those three little museums have been superimposed on each other, enabling visitors to enter the three ghost spaces simultaneously, crossing layer after layer of cultural history, with the various walls and plans collapsing into one another.
    Joanna Warsza, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Kirk is being celebrated as a champion of free speech who was willing to debate anyone anywhere and who was killed by someone who could not tolerate his views.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Surprisingly, marine life appeared to tolerate toxins like TNT and RDX.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Utah team is now seeking patent protection for its discovery, hoping to take fungal hydrogels from the lab to real-world biomedical applications.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Propagating October Magic® Ivory™ Camellia October Magic® Ivory™ Camellia is patent-protected and cannot be propagated.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ford had a challenging first half of 2025 with 88 vehicle recalls with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, according to NHTSA data, which now surpasses the record set by General Motors of 77 recalls for all of 2014, the Detroit Free Press previously reported.
    Olivia Evans, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Ohio has 13 Costco warehouse locations.
    Alex Perry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The collapse of water security in Iran has been decades in the making and is rooted in a mania for megaprojects—dam building, deep wells, and water transfer schemes—that ignored the fundamentals of hydrology and ecological balance.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Pierre LeBrun’s viewpoint Arpon, no doubt the Hughes contract injects a fresh comparable into the discussion that neither the Canadiens nor the Hutson camp can ignore, though using comparables always seems to be in the eye of the beholder.
    Arpon Basu, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So is how strong the run defense has been, which means Smart and company can home in on fixing the pass defense.
    Seth Emerson, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The veteran quarterback has 815 passing yards, two touchdown passes and six interceptions through the first four weeks of the season.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Permit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permit. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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