How to Use ratify in a Sentence

ratify

verb
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  • A number of countries have refused to ratify the treaty.
  • Now, all that was left was for the owners to ratify the deal.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Whether the deal is ratified may not have much to do with AI.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 17 July 2024
  • But the Bill of Rights was ratified more than eight years after the Treaty of Paris was signed.
    — Rich Logis, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
  • If ratified, the contract would bring on new wages, up to 12 weeks of parental leave and more.
    — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The union will vote to ratify the deal, likely next week.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
  • Still, not enough states had ratified the ERA by the time the second deadline came around.
    — Amy Shoenthal, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Nurses will now vote on whether to ratify the contracts by the end of next week.
    — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The online vote to ratify the three-year pact ends Monday.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
  • And just to be able to finally ratify that treaty and be able to say, this is our home.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The 14th Amendment was passed and ratified just after the Civil War.
    — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 11 May 2023
  • Once that plan is ratified, the project will be put out to bid, and construction could begin by the end of next year.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The deal is still pending an MFT members' vote to ratify the contract.
    — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The new contract was ratified last week, putting thousands of people back to work.
    — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
  • How would Utah women’s lives change if the state ratified the Equal Rights Amendment?
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Once the board approves the deal, members will vote on ratifying it.
    — Reuters, CNN, 19 July 2024
  • The City Council will hold a second vote on Feb. 8 to ratify the ordinance.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The strike will end when the studios and the union agree on a new contract, and the majority of union members vote to ratify that contract.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 July 2023
  • Rank-and-file members have until later this week to vote on whether to ratify the agreement.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Nevada and Illinois, which were the 36th and 37th states to ratify the amendment, then joined Virginia in filing suit.
    — Sarah Rankin, ajc, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The country is the sixth-highest greenhouse gas emitter in the world and is one of the only countries to not ratify the Paris Agreement.
    — Devika Rao, theweek, 30 Jan. 2024
  • If the Legislature does not ratify the rule, the agency would have to stop the rulemaking process.
    — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The vote to ratify the contract is set to be completed by next Wednesday evening.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • That group ratified its first union contract last year.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The amendment would then have to be ratified by three-fourths of state Legislatures.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • In 2009, lawmakers ratified the U.N.’s two covenants on human rights, one of which calls for the abolition of the death penalty.
    — Yian Lee / Bloomberg, TIME, 20 Sep. 2024
  • That strike was averted when a deal was struck and ratified earlier this month.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 24 July 2024
  • The players and team governors still need to ratify the new CBA, so neither side has released the full text yet.
    — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The deal still needs to be approved by union leadership and ratified by rank-and-file screenwriters in the coming days.
    — Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The designer and famous sportsman will remain American fashion’s head coach through 2026, as ratified by his peers.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2024

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