codify

Example Sentences

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This weekend’s Super Bowl will codify the shift.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

Though the recurrent phrase “citizen of the United States” had strong nationalist overtones, perhaps the framers did not mean to codify a one-size-fits-all approach.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 4, 2025

But again, these chapters codify the Black American experience as one defined by pain and primarily linked to chattel slavery.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2025

“After FDR died, before the conclusion of his fourth term, a variety of people came together and concluded they needed to codify the notion of a two-term presidency.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2025

He had tried to codify the evil uses of might by individuals, so that he might set bounds to them by the impersonal justice of the state.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White