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Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon — which together are worth nearly $11 trillion — would likely dictate the market’s direction, he noted.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

Coppola conveys that the answers about who Marie Antoinette was have been written into history, but overlooked by the men who most often dictate it.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

I don’t want to let words dictate my next emotions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Keller said he will typically use the time to dictate notes to a transcription app to prepare for meetings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Since I’m letting the universe dictate my life on this Final Day of Childhood, I don’t bother waiting for another train to take me to Thirty-Fourth Street.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

"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

However, she acknowledged, “the reality is the White House is the one that dictates enforcement.”

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 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

The agreement dictates that any conflict between the company and the United States must be settled under U.S. law, not Venezuela’s.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Grandmother Lucy says that decorum dictates I stay home unless you tell me it is all right to come.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

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

Later Bornstein, who has since died, told CNN that Trump dictated the letter to him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

It dictated my movements, my decisions, the rhythm of every day.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

“Commanding Zhongnanhai, the leadership compound in Beijing, is easier than controlling 101 million Party members or dictating policy outcomes across a country as vast and complex as China.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

"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

California does not have a statewide mandate dictating how far a firearms retailer must be from a school or day care.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

"To describe that as dictating is not only unfair on the Ulster Farmers' Union, it's also actually somewhat disingenuous."

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

For now, there are rules dictating our interactions with the human world—those rules could change.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black