OK'd

verb

variants or okayed
past tense of OK
1
as in ratified
to give official acceptance of as satisfactory a judge will have to OK the search warrant

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2
as in accepted
to have a favorable opinion of I'm glad that my friends OK'd my choice of girlfriend

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  1. ratified
  2. accepted
  3. approved
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  • The Guggenheim Museum union, which organized in 2021 and includes approximately 150 curators, conservators, educators, and public programmers, ratified its first contract in 2023, a two-and-a-half-year agreement.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Congress passed the amendment in 1919, and the states ratified it in 1920.
    — Christopher A. Cooper, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of ratified
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  • In January, its investigators reported finding more than 100 hallucinated citations in papers accepted at NeurIPS, one of the world’s top AI research conferences, as Fortune first reported.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Walk-ups to the center will be accepted and the facility has storage available for personal belongings if needed.
    — Allison Gibson, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of accepted
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  • This week, SpaceX moved one step closer to its goal of building its direct-to-device Starlink Mobile service after the FCC approved the aerospace company’s application to deploy and operate 15,000 next-generation Starlink satellites.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Capping them all is JPMorgan’s proposal to erect a £3 billion, 265-meter tower that will be London’s largest office building if its plans are approved.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of approved
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“OK'd.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/OK%27d. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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