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Synonyms for approved

The synonym for approved recorded in this bank is sanctioned, in the sense "established by authority". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for approved

sanctionedadjective, in the sense "established by authority"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for approved.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, Ridgeline

established by authority

A list of approved candidates.

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The true synonym

sanctioned

Same sentence, swapped: A list of sanctioned candidates.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

elected
backed
formal

Where approved turns up in the game

approved is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play approved

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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