Vocabulary
Consent
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.
Urdu meaning
رضا مندی، اقرارکرنا، راضی ہونا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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Consent, as it operates in the digital environment today, is not a legal safeguard.
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Notice, consent, harm
— 2026-04-17
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The post-consent digital harm follows quietly and legally.People do not agree on much these days.
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Notice, consent, harm
— 2026-04-17
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Today, privacy is not about being private but about regulating relationships of power, and consent does not meaningfully constrain powerful actors such as corporations and state authorities.
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Notice, consent, harm
— 2026-04-17
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You may wage this war in our names but not with our consent.
Dawn Editorials —
That longing for regime change
— 2026-03-03
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It begins with rebuilding trust and that can only happen once we accept that we were deployed to manufacture consent and build narratives for seths or someone else.
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Calm vs chaos
— 2026-01-18
Synonyms
agreement, assent, concurrence, accord;
Curator example
“no change may be made without the consent of all the partners”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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