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sanctioned

sanctioned is the simple past and past participle of sanction.

Meaning of sanction

Verb

sanction (third-person singular simple present sanctions, present participle sanctioning, simple past and past participle sanctioned)

  1. (transitive) To ratify; to make valid.
  2. (transitive) To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
    • The school's inaction further sanctions this misbehavior.
  3. (transitive) To penalize (a state etc.) with sanctions.
    • The generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, can be duped into providing detailed advice on how to commit crimes — ranging from money laundering to the export of weapons to sanctioned countries — a tech startup found.2024 October 23, Tricia Escobedo, “AI-generated crimes, a treasure mystery, quick thinking by bus passengers: Catch up on the day’s stories”, in CNN

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Questions about sanctioned

What is sanctioned the simple past and past participle of?
Sanctioned is the simple past and past participle of sanction.

Words near sanctioned in the dictionary

  1. sanctionable
  2. sanctionably
  3. sanctional
  4. sanctionary
  5. sanctionative
  6. sanctioned
  7. sanctioneer
  8. sanctioneers
  9. sanctioner
  10. sanctioners
  11. sanctioning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sanctioned (page history and authors); sanction (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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