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enact

[en-akt] / ɛnˈækt /




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A medical student pressed him on how one senator could actually enact the sweeping things he was promising.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

Morgan Stanley’s Erik Woodring speculated in a July note that Apple could enact a $200 price increase across the entire iPhone 18 lineup.

From MarketWatch Sep. 7, 2026

Nevertheless, advocates focused on reforming the state’s utilities sought this year to seize the moment to enact tough regulations, including forcing data centers to pay for transmission upgrades and wildfire mitigation efforts.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

Mamdani remains popular and influential, commanding high approval numbers from likely voters and acting as a kingmaker for candidates who can enact his affordability agenda.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Before he could enact for her some gesture of loving acceptance, she turned, and she and Leon marched on, calling out the boys’ names.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

The greater risk is that Washington, preparing for the wrong labor-market shock, enacts policies that make it more difficult to adapt.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

You mentioned that sometimes Congress enacts authorizations for use of military force.

From Slate Mar. 2, 2026

The true danger lies not only in what the state enacts, but in what the public comes to accept as normal, even necessary.

From Salon Apr. 16, 2025

UC will adjust its plan depending on what the state ultimately enacts in June.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2024

In a separate act, the Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance, which outlaws slavery in the territories north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi Rivers.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

The new law contains a provision which would allow Police Scotland to continue misconduct proceedings against officers who resign or retire but that part of the legislation has not yet been enacted.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

As of last week, 104 laws have been enacted in the current Congress, putting it on pace for fewer than any of its predecessors since the Civil War.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

The measure is modeled on an Oregon law enacted last year that has chilled private-equity healthcare dealmaking in the state.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

It passed civil rights acts that guaranteed birthright citizenship and enacted Reconstruction Acts that secured black suffrage in the South.

From Slate Sep. 16, 2026

He was still feeling it in September when Congress enacted a draft bill.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

She’s enacting the No. 1 piece of advice I give all my straight, single female pals suffering from go-nowhere serial monogamy: Date a minimum of three men.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

District Court Judge Indira Talwani, a federal judge in Massachusetts, who will decide in the coming days whether to issue a permanent ban on enacting the system for this election.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2026

But the spokesperson stressed Kosovo would focus on enacting its deal with Denmark "before entering into any new agreement of a similar nature".

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

What we have seen in Minneapolis is ordinary people insisting on their own vision of what we are and what we do as a country, then enacting that vision.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Luckily, she had lost her voice, and she could only smile and shrug and wave her arms gracefully, like fronds, as the children tried to guess what sort of charade she was enacting.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood




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