effectuate
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“The board’s only credible path forward is to engage and work with me, one of lululemon’s largest shareholders, to effectuate substantial change,” Wilson said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
She directed the federal government “to facilitate and effectuate the return of Plaintiff Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States by no later than 11:59 PM on Monday, April 7, 2025.”
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025
This is a much more organized effort, because they have changed the laws in a number of places to make it easier to effectuate these outcomes.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2024
She added that while "the number of people who have federal offences are very low, a pardon at the federal level doesn't effectuate the kind of record clearance we want to see".
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023
They are against militarism and for any reasonable plan to effectuate peace.
From Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. Tumulty
A White House spokesperson said of the cuts at the time that EI-ISAC’s work no longer effectuated the priorities of the Department of Homeland Security.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
That metric is called effectuated enrollment, which is viewed as a more accurate reflection of ACA enrollment than sign-ups.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 13, 2026
The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, forged in the wake of the Civil War, effectuated what many historians called a Second Founding of our nation.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2024
“I am gratified by this commitment. However, the university has not yet effectuated this promise, nor has it explained exactly how and when it will do so.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2022
The Great Depression effectuated a sea change in American race relations and party alignment.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
His work continued, along with a few others, thanks to support from Murmur, an organization designed to support labels and industry names, effectuating the commitments made when the Music Climate Pact was signed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
“The president considers the seizure of the oil tanker as effectuating the administration’s sanction policies,” Leavitt said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
But they’ve argued that the new text, which would treat any person “responsible for regularly providing any services effectuating transfers of digital assets” as brokers is still too expansive.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2021
"We have had unprecedented success at effectuating the President’s agenda," Sessions said.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2018
Notwithstanding, at Szabaszawiczy, he was not more than five or six leagues from the passage which was effectuating.
From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur
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