as in to permit
to give permission for or to approve of
as soon as the project is green-lighted, we'll schedule a planning meeting
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as in permission
the approval by someone in authority for the doing of something
we were given the green light to use the town commons for our fund-raiser
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Recent Examples of green-light
Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 June 2026
Downtown Lawrence is decorated with signs and red and green lights, an homage to Algeria’s colors.
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Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
19 June 2026
Now, because the success rate has fallen in some cases to 5 percent, near unanimity among reviewers is required, and only the projects that reviewers see as most certain of success will receive a green light.
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Mark Histed,
The Atlantic,
17 June 2026
After months of collaboration, the streamer gave the project a green light.
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Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
16 June 2026
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Margaret’s answer was a green light — with an asterisk.
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Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 June 2026
Downtown Lawrence is decorated with signs and red and green lights, an homage to Algeria’s colors.
—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
19 June 2026
Now, because the success rate has fallen in some cases to 5 percent, near unanimity among reviewers is required, and only the projects that reviewers see as most certain of success will receive a green light.
—
Mark Histed,
The Atlantic,
17 June 2026
After months of collaboration, the streamer gave the project a green light.
—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
16 June 2026
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Gary Chan, who obtained a federal explosives permit for the company, has been charged with seven counts of murder and six charges related to the possession and transportation of explosives.
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The Heat began Tuesday by retaining three-point shooting forward Simone Fontecchio in free agency, and then continued to address its need for outside shooting when league-wide free agent negotiations were permitted to begin Tuesday night.
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He was granted permission to travel to New York for the event.
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What the Council's change adds is not access to green finance but permission to badge the whole enterprise, oil growth included, as transition.
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They both were granted bail, allowing Brown to go on with his stadium tour this year.
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The University of California Health system and Cigna, facing a July 1 deadline to reach a new contract covering a large group of Sacramento-area patients, have agreed to an extension to allow more time for negotiations.
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Proponents of the authorization note that the $155 million investment arrives four years after a severe drought in the Sacramento Valley in 2022 had cost local communities hundreds of millions of dollars and roughly 1,500 jobs.
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For example, California’s prior authorization reform bill, SB 1120, passed in 2024 unanimously.
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The landmark property celebrates the style of the sixties, when air travel still had a spark of glamor.
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The Chiefs have a world championship banner hanging atop the press box.
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That describes cases in which a broker enrolled a consumer in an ACA plan without their consent.
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Earlier this month, the court struck down a Hawaii law that prohibits the carry of a firearm onto private property that is open to the public unless the property owner gives express consent.
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But, as is often the case with these kinds of monkey’s paws, the granting of a wish comes at a great cost—the wishmaker’s life.
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In this age of excess and endless wish granting, self denial becomes a superpower and a necessity.
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For decades, banks have operated under anti-money laundering rules, customer due diligence requirements, suspicious activity reporting, sanctions screening and payment transparency obligations.
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The Vatican’s doctrine office went above and beyond the minimum sanctions foreseen by the church’s canon law to respond to the consecrations Wednesday of four new bishops at the society’s Econe, Switzerland, seminary.
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“Green-light.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/green-light. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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