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These consents, after all, are legal agreements that terminate a biological parent’s legal claim to a child and vest those rights in non-biological parents.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

The board cited uncertainty in obtaining client consents and questioned Victory Capital’s $500 million synergy estimate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

And he can remain on our soil only when the sovereign — in the U.S., that’s “We the People” — consents to it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025

"Shell, Equinor and Ithaca," wrote Lord Ericht, "knew or ought to have known at the time that the consents were granted that the law was uncertain."

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025

He fumbles with the lighter before it consents to spark.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern