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US
/ˈɡɹænəd, ˈɡɹænɪd, ˈɡɹæntəd, ˈɡɹæntɪd/
]
[ UK /ɡɹˈɑːntɪd/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈɑːntɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
acknowledged as a supposition
given the engine's condition, it is a wonder that it started
How To Use granted In A Sentence
- The recession blindsided a lot of lawyers who had previously taken for granted their comfortable income.
- Where the company is seeking general authority to purchase shares in the market they must state their intentions regarding the authority granted.
- The Israelis already possess them, operating disingenuously and outside international norms again, an exceptionalism granted by the United States’ favor andmight. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”
- In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent on an apparatus for signalling and communicating called a Photophone.
- What splendor and pulchritude, what symmetry in all things, what assets for the necessities of life have you not granted and assigned to this land and its inhabitants! Brotherhood of the Butterfly Net
- Granted, people often clump together for mutual protection from an outside enemy. Christianity Today
- Granted, we have reams of remote sensing data from that first investigation, including the information from the detailed dissection of the spider biot done by Dr. Laura Ernst. But the cosmonauts brought home only one artifact, a tiny piece of some kind of biomechanical flower whose physical characteristics had already irreversibly changed before any of its mysteries could be understood, We have nothing else in the way of souvenirs from that first excursion. Rama Revisited
- He was granted a licence to mine in the area.
- The court granted her a decree of divorce.
- He's now milking tarantulas for their venom, and has recently been granted a licence to export that venom.