by fiat
Example Sentences
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Min Aung Hlaing ruled by fiat as military chief over four years of emergency rule after the coup.
From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025
"The result is a financial death penalty by fiat imposed on a media defendant whose broadcasts reach millions," he told the Supreme Court in the appeal.
From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025
Live, and back behind those skyscrapers, City Hall, by fiat once our tallest building.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2024
It would have been a perfectly existentialist spectacle — restless hordes, in the face of a vast nothingness, creating meaning by fiat, through an absurd, defiant, repetitive, arbitrary ritual.
From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2022
His light brown frizzy hair was scrupulously brushed, and parted by fiat.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
