dictate
Example Sentences
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The men who dictated the affidavits said they were among the few who refused.
Logic dictates that England's role on Saturday will be to simply bear witness to France's title-winning coronation.
From BBC
Details on the plan remain scarce, and the pace of the release will dictate its effect on prices.
Assets are valued using a “risk-free” interest rate, and an investor’s tolerance in either taking risk on, or shunning it entirely, dictates the prices of those assets throughout the whole of their tradable life.
From Barron's
Telling his own story decades later, Harry would recount how royal custom dictated he ask his grandmother for permission to marry Meghan.
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