dictate

Example Sentences

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The market is due to see a rolling supply disruption unfolding “sequentially rather than simultaneously” — moving westward, “dictated by shipping times and buffered unevenly by regional inventories.”

From MarketWatch

But the laws of football's ecosystem dictate that without action the club could fall further behind.

From BBC

Leading AI developers believe that we’re a couple years away from transformative AI that will completely reshape the world and dictate the course of future events.

From Salon

He assembled a research team to gather source documents, and a secretarial squad to which he dictated with a fervor he would make famous in World War II.

From The Wall Street Journal

And the U.S. began that relationship with the free Cuban people, many of whom had been enslaved by Spain, not by inviting them to the negotiation table in France but by dictating terms.

From Los Angeles Times