codify
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He said Iran has a chance to make a deal and to codify what they said they’ve been willing to do.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
The poor conditions were also the backdrop for a push in 1980 by the New Progressive Party governor at the time, Carlos Romero Barceló, to codify voting rights for prisoners.
From Salon ● May 6, 2026
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
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
The islands’ extreme deference to animals—many of which only exist here—was codified into law in 2022 in a landmark case involving a woolly monkey named Estrellita.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
He said doing so was likely illegal even if the City Council agreed to it, because of “housing first” policies codified in state law.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Within the past two years, authorities codified the fine print on fund management, payment and settlement, accounting, and taxation, among other essential pillars.
From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026
The justices could choose to focus on a 1952 law passed by Congress that codified birthright citizenship and not wade into the larger constitutional debate, said Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration law expert.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
She began to slip them one by one through her fingers, exactly as her father had done, and her grandfather, and her great-grandfather, performing a family legacy of precise, codified, thorough worrying.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
“What is the problem of codifying in law that you’re not allowed to?” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026
The state secretary for digitalisation, Alexander Pröll, from the conservative ÖVP, said that a draft bill codifying the ban would be presented by the end of June.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
They also recalled little pushback when DHS formally banned chokeholds and other tactics in 2023; it was merely codifying the norm.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026
One challenge is codifying the decades of knowhow held in the brains of Bull and his colleagues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
Provisions are made for digesting and codifying the laws, and for simplifying the forms of legal procedure.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing codify
Vocabulary from the Twelfth Republican Debate, March 10, 2016
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