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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

Can anyone truly be themselves when society’s bylaws not only dictate proper human behavior but also how successful anyone can be in something as complicated and unknowable as life itself?

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

The payments began while Hines was working to finalize the Genius Act—legislation that would dictate Tether’s ability to operate in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Part of what it means to have a powerful or persuasive personality, then, is that you can draw others into your own rhythms and dictate the terms of the interaction.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

"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

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

That consideration dictates single authorship, despite all the difficulties that it poses.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

But although the one-liners were flying, the show got very serious at the end, when the game's new twist dictated that Grant and Jama had to select their third traitor.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The book described the phenomenon that dictated rocket-nozzle design, and Quentin and I talked about it until we were certain we understood it.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

"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

Several figures at the club still regard him as the profile the squad is missing now, a controlling midfielder capable of dictating tempo in a way nobody currently on the books quite replicates.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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

Two years of dictating that everyone commute into work on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays was hurting the morale as well as the productivity of many.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Besides dictating career opportunities, the system shaped geographic destiny, with the core class allowed to live in and around Pyongyang.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden