codify

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This weekend’s Super Bowl will codify the shift.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

In a social media post on Wednesday, Trump said he would ask Congress to "codify" the plan and would discuss it further at the Davos World Economic Forum later this month.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

Some elements of the new law will simplify and codify existing best practices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

Voters in seven states last fall voted to codify a right to abortion in their state constitutions via ballot initiatives.

From Salon • Aug. 25, 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