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edict

[ee-dikt] / ˈi dɪkt /


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It’s a restaurant I’d love to return to one day without a self-imposed edict to eat everything offered to the entire table.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

President Joe Biden, Trump's predecessor, recalled the Independence Declaration's edict that all people are created equal.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

The Chargers’ last game was a playoff loss to Vrabel’s Patriots, so nothing short of an edict from the NFL probably would have stopped the franchise’s social media team from referencing the Vrabel-Russini controversy.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

The Wall Street Journal later reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that the US giant was preparing to backtrack on its acquisition after the Chinese edict.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

As usual, many of the families were behind in their tuition payments, and others had stopped paying when Fazlullah issued his edict.

From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai

But in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, where all of the country’s confirmed cases have been reported, residents have adapted quickly to government health edicts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Lawmakers in the lower house will on Thursday debate a bill to annul the royal edicts, and the Senate is then to have its say at an undetermined date before the law can pass.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

One expert points out Taliban members have been happy to follow Akhundzada despite disagreeing with edicts like the ones on girls' education.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026

The problem is, these kinds of edicts are impossible to follow in a practical way.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 9, 2026

In a similar manner, centuries of respectable writers have gradually shifted the collective consensus of what is right and wrong while shrugging off now-forgotten edicts by self-appointed guardians of the language.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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