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The choice would dictate the company’s direction going forward — and it could look like when Apple transitioned from the “visionary” Steve Jobs to the more operations-minded Tim Cook, the analysts added.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

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

I’m used to it, but please don’t dictate a response to this column on your next flight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 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

Faction customs dictate even idle behavior and supersede individual preference.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

"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

It is only September and it is still hot in Paintbrush Falls, even if we are pretty far north, but Killer Man has decided, I guess, that the season dictates gray flannel.

From "The Misfits" by James Howe

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

“They instead receive lesser amounts dictated by the remaining Executor, who uses this power to deter them from checking his abuses,” Paris’ petition alleges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

In a statement dictated to her legal team, Pike said she entered her scheduled execution on Sept. 30 at peace and woke up several days later at a hospital, “confused and in pain.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The rules of parley dictated that only the lieutenants could speak once negotiations had begun.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

"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

Unison said the breakthrough created a route towards a ballot of its membership, without the council dictating the union's recommendation or communications.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

“When you go ‘pace,’ you’re dictating what the defense does.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

Convinced the Americans were about to attack, Castro began dictating a desperate message to Nikita Khrushchev.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin