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Gabriel Attal, a centrist rival to become president, said that "in France, no culture, no belief, no religion, nothing and no one can come and dictate to women what their place should be".

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

Sander Berge: Struggled to dictate the tempo as he had done in pre-season in an unsettled game.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

His comments will dictate the path forward for a tech-crazed stock market and an economy hoping the boom won’t go bust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

In the short term, the Federal Reserve sets interest rates that dictate what businesses and individuals pay to borrow money.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

There comes a time when the body’s urges, the body’s needs, dictate the life.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

Every plan runs on a written document, and that document dictates what you’re allowed to do with your own money.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

The same logic dictates the "forced march" the hopefuls must undergo -- the final exercise required to earn the paratrooper's beret.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Xi has set up an extensive system of rules and enforcement that closely dictates the behavior of party members and government workers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

She believes that if all the signs point to a partner-less destiny anyway, then she may as well flout the dictates of her mother and the marriage mart.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

The raga dictates how each note should be used, more specifically than a modal or major-minor system does.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

This is often because studios themselves dictated the stories and angles being written about.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

Whether or not you do a Roth conversion in your 80s will also be dictated by your deductions and advice from the aforementioned CFP on what taxes you will pay during your “conversion window.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

If no one claims the prize by next Thursday, the money will go to public schools in California as dictated by the statute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

At Aston Martin, Lance Stroll finished in 13th, ahead of team-mate Fernando Alonso, their positions dictated to a degree by luck under the VSC and their divergent strategies.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

Historians tend to discount Gorges’s tale, partly because his memoirs, dictated late in life, mix up details, and partly because the notion that Tisquantum was abducted twice just seems incredible. “utterly void,” Dermer reported.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

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

Another clip showed Fury, who said ticket profits would be donated to a local charity supporting disadvantaged children and students with disabilities, dictating the pace and repeatedly landing uppercuts at close range in the fifth.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Perhaps most ambitiously, fans will want to integrate the worlds of gamification, digital technology and video streaming to create their own reality, dictating what teams, venues and even eras are featured on their screen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

At first Regina could handle him, but by the time Bobby reached six, he was dictating policy about his own regimen.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady