codify

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The Senate recently added legislation to its housing bill to codify the ban.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 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

Lawmakers could also consider whether to codify the 2019 HRA rule or incorporate HRA-related tax incentives in a possible second budget reconciliation bill.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

As director and narrator Dawn Logsdon describes in her documentary “Free for All: The Public Library,” these horrors inspired America's librarians to codify their unifying principles into a document.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 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