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With that unique selling point more common now than a decade ago, how he builds on it will dictate how his tenure unfolds.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

Whatever it was, Stewart’s charm was in his refusal to let snobbery dictate his life or career path.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

I would have thought that one of the advantages of being super rich is that you no longer have to let money dictate your choices.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Conventional wisdom used to dictate that righty pitchers should only throw changeups against left-handed batters and vice versa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The one time she tried to protect Nel, she had cut off her own finger tip and earned not Nel’s gratitude but her disgust From then on she had let her emotions dictate her behavior.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

“Johnnie Walker Black Label. And something Japanese,” he dictates to one of the two assistants scurrying around his palatial open-plan home in L.A.’s Beverly Grove.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

"The amount of flexibility of the polymer dictates how many bonds it has. It allows us to lower the number of bonds each particle has and make lattices we have never seen before."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

The 9th Circuit judges in Friday’s opinion said that “this clause expressly dictates which sovereign has the authority to prescribe the manner in which congressional elections are conducted.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Even when intergalactic forces take pains to make the Lantern Corps’ selection process fair, Earth’s unspoken dictates about worthiness make that impossible.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Dinner is at three, and as tradition dictates, we all go upstairs and dress up a little.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

More broadly, the successful test suggests that the size of future space infrastructure may not always have to be dictated by the dimensions of the rockets used to launch its components.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

"The pricing power of companies is still pretty much dictated by consumers" in Japan, he said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

“And I helped make sure they dictated that,” said Jose Ugarte, a former aide to the district’s incumbent councilmember, Curren Price.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Which was something short of thought, but certainly dictated its cousin, behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

On July 28, 1943, Lilya sat in the cockpit of her Yak and dictated a letter to her mother while she waited to be given a combat mission.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

"There's no magic line" dictating what defines a nation, he told AFP, but noted Alberta's case for nationhood appears harder to make than that of other groups, like Catalans, Scots and French-speaking Canadians in Quebec.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

“Catchers, I think it’s the most important position on the field. They’re the ones calling pitches, dictating game flow, rhythm, all that type of stuff. I’m going to trust those guys always.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Activists and protesters see the focus on women as an effort to use India’s strict social norms dictating women’s behavior to tarnish the protests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Some communities have strong cultural traditions dictating who should fill the caretaker role — in many cases, that’s the eldest daughter.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

He was used to dictating to grown men.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover