RATIFYING Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

ratifying

verb

present participle of ratify

as in approving

to give official acceptance of as satisfactory Lincoln's home state of Illinois was the first to ratify the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which provided for the abolition of slavery

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Recent Examples of ratifying The museum’s security staff organized separately, in 2022, ratifying their inaugural contract in 2024 following a twelve-day strike. —

News Desk, Artforum, 18 May 2026 If the unions agreed to that, Horwitz said, any delay in negotiating or ratifying a new contract after the 2026 contract runs out would see the LIRR workers effectively making less after the end of the year. —

Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 13 May 2026 Workers represented by United Steelworkers Local 12775 are headed back to work at NIPSCO, after ratifying a new contract with the utility. —

Todd Feurer, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026 Last April, the union celebrated when Atlanta City Council passed a resolution ratifying the first-of-its-kind collective bargaining agreement. —

Riley Bunch, AJC.com, 17 Mar. 2026 European lawmakers on Monday delayed a vote on ratifying the pact to seek clarification. —

ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026 America’s ratification that year broke a logjam of inaction by nations that had signed the agreement but were wary about actually ratifying it as a legal document. —

Gary W. Yohe, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2026 Key members led by Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed on Sunday to keep production levels steady through the end of March, once again ratifying a decision first made in November to suspend last year’s sequence of swift increases. —

Grant Smith, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2026 Advertisement When Americans gathered to debate the Constitution at their state ratifying conventions, the 12-juror requirement was a given. —

Time, 17 Dec. 2025

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The Senate barely missed its midnight deadline that year before approving by a 60-34 vote legislation to reauthorize Section 702 that was subsequently signed by then-President Biden.

— Joey Cappelletti, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
The city is approving permits on a game-by-game basis, and Wednesday's came together hours before the game.

— Ali Bauman, CBS News, 4 June 2026