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The President already signed the treaty, but it won't take effect unless the Senate ratifies it.ratifies = approves
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It will require a union vote to ratify the labor contract.ratify = approve
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The 1929 Geneva Convention, which Japan had signed but never ratified, permitted detaining powers to use POWs for labor, with restrictions. (source)ratified = formally approved (as if the U.S. president signed a treaty that was not approved by Congress)
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I went through every major screening test on both my heads—all the tests I had to go through under Government medical officers before my nomination for presidency could be properly ratified. (source)ratified = approved
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That is because they are in the ratified version. (source)
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It was submitted to the legislature and they refused to ratify it. (source)ratify = approve
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It had come to be accepted that the pigs, who were manifestly cleverer than the other animals, should decide all questions of farm policy, though their decisions had to be ratified by a majority vote. (source)ratified = approved
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Had you followed Captain Ahab down into his cabin after the squall that took place on the night succeeding that wild ratification of his purpose with his crew, you would have seen him go to a locker in the transom, and bringing out a large wrinkled roll of yellowish sea charts, spread them before him on his screwed-down table. (source)ratification = approvalstandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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If, however, the Emperor of Russia ratifies that convention, I will ratify it; but it is only a trick. (source)ratify = approve
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So much that, by 1795, it is even suggested that Tristero has staged the entire French Revolution, just for an excuse to issue the Proclamation of 9th Frimaire, An III, ratifying the end of the Thurn and Taxis postal monopoly in France and the Lowlands.† (source)ratifying = approving
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If, however, the Emperor of Russia ratifies that convention, I will ratify it; but it is only a trick. (source)ratifies = formally approves
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The rabble call him lord; And, as the world were now but to begin, Antiquity forgot, custom not known, The ratifiers and props of every word, They cry 'Choose we!† (source)
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An oath that's ratified,—a sealed promise, (source)ratified = formally approved
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What occurs under the public gaze with so much pomp and ceremony is often the conclusion, or mere ratification, of what has taken place over weeks or months within the walls of such houses.† (source)ratification = approval
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I require an order which would ratify beforehand all that I should think proper to do for the greatest good of France. (source)ratify = formally approve
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Then his poor muddled head nodded a while and presently drooped to his shoulder; and the business of the empire came to a standstill for want of that august factor, the ratifying power.† (source)ratifying = approving
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