How to Use signatory in a Sentence

signatory

noun
  • On the left, the most notable signatory was Gabriel Boric.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • Read the full statement and the list of signatories below.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The United States is a signatory to the treaty, but not a party.
    CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Egypt is a signatory to ICAO and is bound by its rules.
    John Cox, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The full text of the letter and list of signatories is below.
    Brandon Gomez, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The paperwork is sent back to the signatory, who needs to get a notary to sign it.
    Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2018
  • Germany is one of the signatories to the nuclear deal and has sought to keep Iran in the accord.
    Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2019
  • Russia, Ukraine and the United States are not among the signatories.
    Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
  • Britain is one of more than 120 signatories on a convention that bans the weapons.
    Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • Britain is one of 123 signatories to a convention that bans the weapon.
    USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • Iran was abiding by the main points of the deal, and the other European signatories want to stick with it.
    NBC News, 29 June 2019
  • One of the signatories of the letter was Lisa Carnoy, a former co-chair of Columbia's board of trustees.
    Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024
  • But Russia, Ukraine and the United States are not signatories to the agreement.
    Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • The letter, whose signatories were led by North Bay Reps.
    J.d. Morris, SFChronicle.com, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Phone calls for comment to a dozen signatories of the letter weren’t returned.
    Costas Paris, WSJ, 10 May 2019
  • The tech giants were a few of the 14 new signatories announced Tuesday by the office of Siebel Newsom.
    Levi Sumagaysay, The Mercury News, 2 July 2019
  • But Pastor Troy DeCohen, one of the signatories to the letter, doesn’t see it that way.
    Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 14 May 2018
  • China is a key signatory of the Paris Agreement and has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2060.
    Alexis Benveniste, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Neither Ukraine nor Russia is a signatory to the treaty.
    Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
  • Pakistan is not a signatory to the U.N. refugee convention and has urged Afghans to return home.
    Washington Post, 1 July 2021
  • Those signatories would need to approve a peace treaty.
    Andrew Jeong, WSJ, 4 June 2018
  • Disney, which films many of its blockbuster Marvel movies and TV series in the state, was not a signatory.
    Adam Epstein, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The European Union, also a signatory to the atomic deal, has pledged to take steps to salvage the accord.
    Fortune, 17 May 2018
  • Elon Musk, one of the most prominent signatories, didn’t wait long to ignore his own call for a slowdown.
    WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • If anything, Iran has seized on the fact that the deal’s other signatories have stuck with it as a way to divide the United States from its allies.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 June 2018
  • Human Rights Watch was not a signatory to the letter calling for the 2022 Games to be taken away from Beijing.
    Ben Westcott, CNN, 10 Sep. 2020
  • According to the union, the company is not a signatory to its 2023 contract, whose term is three years.
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
  • If Michigan State had been a signatory, the public would have been entitled to see the contract.
    Walt Bogdanich, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Current signatories have thus far resisted the pressure to let Beijing in, largely based on the hope that the United States may eventually shake off its trade-deal paranoia and join.
    Elizabeth Economy, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The country is not a signatory to the Geneva Conventions, and its stringent domestic asylum law has granted residency to only 17% of the more than a million Syrians who live in the country.
    Ana Martín Gil, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025

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