okay
Americanadjective
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The president doesn’t control voting and as long as state and local officials remember that, it’ll probably be okay.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
"Because the collision was considered violent enough to melt and vaporize large portions of Earth and Theia, those previous papers assumed that it is okay to approximate them as fluids," Asphaug said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
“I told her it’s okay because I can make it a shop,” Zaggle recalled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
“I haven’t been okay for what feels like a very, very long time,” he said, repeating, “I am not okay, but I have hope I will get to okay.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Hope the talk with your parents went okay.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
The deal was okayed by the Indian cabinet earlier this week, news agency PTI reported on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2025
Police Chief Jim McDonnell okayed the removal of the officers after learning of the specific allegations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
Keene said: "I am satisfied on the balance of probabilities that Chris okayed or approved the contract just like he had done before except this time he used a thumbs-up emoji."
From Reuters ● Jul. 7, 2023
The State Department said it had okayed sales worth more than $425 million of spare aircraft parts to support Taiwan’s fleet of F-16 fighters, C-130 transport planes and other U.S.-supplied weapons systems.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
Construction of a new tower there had long ago been okayed, the union president explained, but no funds were available to build it.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
A judge’s order okaying a $55,000 payout to a former staffer in the third case noted in court records that the settlement, which included attorney fees, should not be taken as an admission of wrongdoing.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
If anything the editor okaying it makes it even worse, because it's like, "Did you not read my whole book that would explain why this is missing the point?"
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2020
With NFL owners okaying his four-year, $200 million contract extension last week as Protector of the Shield, Goodell will cross the half-billion mark in earnings since becoming commissioner.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2017
But in cases like Giordano's, where Lindenbaum did the okaying, the evidence resulting from the taps may not be used even though the taps may have been otherwise legal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Set up under the Budget & Accounting Act of 1921 was the office of the Comptroller General, with twofold duty of okaying Government expenditures before they are made and auditing them afterwards.*
From Time Magazine Archive
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