How to Use approbation in a Sentence

approbation

noun

• The company has even received the approbation of its former critics.
• But the right to speak is not the right to public approbation.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 18 Oct. 2017
• Adding to the appeal is the cachet of A-list approbation.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 14 May 2021
• Does your approbation of the death penalty have no bounds?
  — Jed S. Rakoff, Slate Magazine, 28 Apr. 2017
• There is now a market, measured in attention and approbation, for anyone who can sniff out a Karen.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2020
• Kolomoisky enjoyed a few, brief moments in the glow of Western approbation.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2019
• But Pankhurst had long since dispensed with a womanly need for approbation.
  — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2020
• His search — for himself, for love, for approbation, for confidence — has become the most vivid subject of his music.
  — Star Tribune, 24 Dec. 2020
• However, his talent soon garnered him the approbation of his peers.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 21 June 2019
• As Churchland admits, a system based on the glow of social approbation and affection versus the shame and pain of their inverse is vulnerable to all kinds of abuse.
  — Lidija Haas, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The most coveted approbation, though, was being summoned over to the couch, an honor bestowed on only a handful of first-time performers.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 2 June 2017
• Their words sparked displays of approbation and disapproval from the gallery, prompting several pleas for decorum from Chairman Raney.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Mar. 2023
• His comedy, by its very nature, doesn’t find, or even seek, universal approbation.
  — Soumya Rao, Quartz India, 3 June 2019
• This is especially the case given the fact that slavery has received the universal approbation of most cultures across history.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 22 Sep. 2020
• Some of the loudest voices have displayed astonishing hypocrisy on this issue, with celebrities deserving the most approbation.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• Perhaps contributing to the attendees’ approbation, a station was placed near the Lolla main gate, which was another strategic decision.
  — Nicole Blackwood, chicagotribune.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• But Levinson bested Waters through middle-class approbation, not through talent.
  — Armond White, National Review, 31 July 2019
• Within a rhetoric of universal approbation, every writer turns craven; all talent withers.
  — Hermione Hoby, The New Yorker, 3 July 2019
• And for those of us trying to listen to our more subtle selves, who are perhaps unduly sensitive to the neuroses and agendas of others, the pursuit of fleeting approbation can become a real distraction, thwarting those tender shoots of new ideas.
  — Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• Aside from pay, benefits and the approbation of their fellow citizens, a universal correlate of job satisfaction is a belief that the people in charge are making good decisions.
  — WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020
• If some artists in this show seem to be speaking a bit too literally, that may be because influencing local audiences was a more urgent calling than winning the approbation of far-off western institutions.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
• And as a social philosophy eugenics also received approbation and financial support from the wealthy and other elites—particularly in the U.S.
  — Osagie K. Obasogie, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2013
• Whatever the future holds, history will record with great approbation that for seventy years Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor relayed the cards dealt her with remarkably consistent devotion to the monarchy.
  — Town & Country, 19 Sep. 2022
• Unexpectedly, for a modern American political debate, Kasky didn’t look pleased at this show of public approbation.
  — Eve Fairbanks, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2018
• While overall support remains strong for these space vehicles, delays in their development may have begun to break the almost uniform congressional approbation for these exploration programs.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2017
• The slow embrace of the comic-book medium by elite audiences is a history with its own particular milestones, each marking a moment of sudden approbation by previously disapproving constituencies.
  — Jeremy Dauber, The Atlantic, 27 July 2022
• But unlike his predecessor, overall public approbation of his presidency so far has remained steady at a positive level, in the mid-50s, though Americans grade him negatively on immigration.
  — Star Tribune, 24 Apr. 2021
• Those alliances helped define the nation; America’s presence on the international stage shone brighter with Humboldt’s approbation, an imprimatur many in the U.S. assiduously cultivated.
  — Eleanor Jones Harvey, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
• But unlike Timberlake, Bieber isn’t working with pioneering sonic architects like Timbaland or the Neptunes, making choices that invite critical approbation.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• The doc’s history is interrupted by a quick, contrasting photo of Jay-Z — standing for rock and hip-hop commercialization that turned black musical sincerity into an obsession with narcissism, power, and political approbation.
  — Armond White, National Review, 18 May 2022

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