How to Use reauthorize in a Sentence

reauthorize

verb
  • It still has not been reauthorized.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • The law has been reauthorized and enhanced twice since then.
    — W. Craig Vanderwagen, STAT, 16 June 2026
  • As a result, it was not reauthorized.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Congress will need to reauthorize the statute later this year.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 10 June 2025
  • And this year, Congress must reauthorize it.
    — Edward F. Davis, Boston Herald, 7 June 2026
  • The program will expire at the end of this year if not reauthorized by Congress.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The bill would also reauthorize highway funding that is set to expire this weekend.
    — Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Since then, Congress has reauthorized the program every five years.
    — Ashish Jha, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Now, the vote has headed to the desk of President Biden, who has called for it to be reauthorized.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Congress will have another chance at reform later this year when the program is reauthorized as part of the farm bill.
    — Chris Edwards, National Review, 12 June 2023
  • Blumenthal has also called for the Farm Bill to be reauthorized.
    — Kaitlyn Pohly, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2024
  • The bill would reauthorize a program that matches bone marrow donors and cord blood units with patients who have leukemia and other diseases.
    — Daniella Diaz, CNN, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Biden, who sponsored the 1994 law, vowed to push Congress to reauthorize it.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Mark Warner told me that there are enough votes to get FISA reauthorized.
    — CBS News, 21 June 2026
  • Yet the fund has nonetheless been reauthorized six times since its inception, with terms ranging from five to 10 years.
    — Michael R. Allen, The Conversation, 25 June 2025
  • The program should have been reauthorized last year, but the deadline was extended due to partisan divide.
    — Carrie Welton, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Lawmakers have until the end of September to reauthorize the agency for the next five years.
    — Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 24 Aug. 2023
  • DeSantis reauthorized his order putting the Guard in state prisons four times.
    — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
  • The budget agreement does not reauthorize the cap-and-trade program and leaves many of those questions unanswered for later in the session or next year.
    — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 27 June 2025
  • The question going forward is whether lawmakers have the bandwidth and desire to reauthorize them during the lame duck.
    — Victoria Knight, Axios, 15 Oct. 2024
  • After the initial window, the tariff must be reauthorized by Congress.
    — Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The Senate is set to take up a bill to reauthorize a series of crucial taxes that fund Medicaid.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
  • In New York, global health leaders have called on Congress to reauthorize the program.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Lawmakers will vote on reauthorizing the agency.
    — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Congress is struggling to reauthorize this key government surveillance law that has not lapsed before in history.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • Trump posted on social media in 2024, when the provision was last reauthorized.
    — ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Usually, the program is reauthorized for five years but, in 2024, it was only reauthorized for one year.
    — Fatma Tanis, NPR, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Johnson's latest proposal would reauthorize the program for three years, but does not include a warrant requirement.
    — Eric McDaniel, NPR, 24 Apr. 2026
  • However, the bill expires on September 30, and must be reauthorized.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Lawmakers voted last year to reauthorize the cap-and-invest program — formerly known as cap-and-trade — through 2045.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026

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