greenlight
(transitive, idiomatic, informal) To approve; to permit to proceed.
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🚨BREAKING: Alabama lawmakers took initial votes Tuesday giving the greenlight to legislation that would change congressional and state senate district maps in primary elections that are already underway. www.democrac…
Hello, I am Television P. Executive, and I wish to greenlight your show
spending $1.89 on a custom url for a shirt store might be the strongest anti-AI signal possible. no optimization algorithm would ever greenlight that marketing budget
Alabama lawmakers took initial votes Tuesday giving the greenlight to legislation that would change congressional and state senate district maps in primary elections that are already underway. www.democracydocket.com/…
Its extremely telling that Alito is the justice who gets the procedural posture of the case completely wrong in his rush to greenlight Louisiana's partisan redistricting, and yet KBJ is the one who gets called dumb be…
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(transitive, idiomatic, informal) To approve; to permit to proceed.
The United Kingdom (UK) is reportedly waiting for US approval before greenlighting Ukrainian forces to use UK-provided Storm Shadow missiles for long-range strikes against military targets in Russia.
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(transitive, slang, idiomatic) To approve or requisition the harming or death of; to put a hit out on.
The United Kingdom (UK) is reportedly waiting for US approval before greenlighting Ukrainian forces to use UK-provided Storm Shadow missiles for long-range strikes against military targets in Russia.
“🚨BREAKING: Alabama lawmakers took initial votes Tuesday giving the greenlight to legislation that would change congressional and state senate district maps in primary elections that are already underway. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Hello, I am Television P. Executive, and I wish to greenlight your show”
— Bluesky· May 2026“spending $1.89 on a custom url for a shirt store might be the strongest anti-AI signal possible. no optimization algorithm would ever greenlight that marketing budget”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Alabama lawmakers took initial votes Tuesday giving the greenlight to legislation that would change congressional and state senate district maps in primary elections that are already underway. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Its extremely telling that Alito is the justice who gets the procedural posture of the case completely wrong in his rush to greenlight Louisiana's partisan redistricting, and yet KBJ is the one who gets called dumb because Alito is loud and wrong on main about it.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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