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Six example sentences with authorize, each labelled with its topic.
Only two directors may authorize a transfer above one million dollars, and both signatures are checked by the bank.
Finance
The administrator must authorize each new device before it can read anything stored on the company file server.
Technology
A judge alone can authorize the search, and officers who arrive without that signed order are turned away.
Law
Parliament must authorize any new spending, so the minister's promise meant nothing until the vote passed.
Politics
A senior doctor must authorize the transfer before the helicopter crew is allowed to lift off with the patient.
Medicine
The ethics board took four months to authorize the study, and every consent form had to be rewritten twice.
Science
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