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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

Others had parents who wanted to dictate their romantic lives.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

"They're angry at the chief constable for allowing lawlessness to win, for allowing the mob to dictate," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

I asked her if she would write a letter that I would dictate.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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

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

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

For now, the strategists say the “summer consensus” that dictates buying assets that are perceived as riskier, such as stocks, is still in place.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 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

“Our Pukhtunwali tenant of melmastia dictates that we do not turn out a guest once we have given them our hand in friendship and a place at our table.”

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

“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

The economic war in the Persian Gulf is dictated as much by how much the countries in the region can move their exports over land rather than through the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

But clan representatives said that reports of Oyo having a son were not sufficient because the child had not been formally presented to the royal clan as dictated by Tooro tradition.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

I’d sat in on enough of these tests to know that protocol dictated that we sit and watch our recap in front of the panel.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

“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

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

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

“He gave orders on every phase of life, even dictating what sort of clothes I should wear and where I should buy them,” she recalled.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield