authority

In a sentence

Six example sentences with authority, each labelled with its topic.

• Interns may recommend discharge, but only the attending physician carries the authority to sign a patient out.

  Medicine

• The mayor lacked the authority to close the bridge, so the decision waited for a county board vote.

  Politics

• In the guild's charter, only the raid leader has authority to assign loot, and members accept those calls.

  Gaming

• A referee's authority ends at the final buzzer, so the disputed call was reviewed by the league office instead.

  Basketball

• The new engineer had the authority to ship code straight to production, a trust the founders extended to nobody else.

  Startups

• A city court has no authority over a dispute across the state line, so the whole case moved to a federal judge.

  Law

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Each source is a published word list that contains authority. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• linked
• contribution
• despite
• trace
• concluded
• annual
• definition
• required
• instruction
• substantial
• retain
• complex