dictate
Example Sentences
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“The play on the field is amazing, and then with what the play has dictated and determined there is a responsibility in terms of representing all things not exclusive to just that,” McVay said.
From Los Angeles Times
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
