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enactment

[en-akt-muhnt] / ɛnˈækt mənt /




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And that’s his persistent campaign to preserve Social Security — indeed, to enhance it so it serves today’s workers as well or better than it has served Americans since its enactment in 1935.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

The housing bill's quiet enactment would mark an unusual conclusion to months of cross-party negotiations, as a significant congressional accomplishment that the president declined to celebrate, but chose not to stop.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

The bill’s imminent enactment comes as housing affordability is front and center for many Americans.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

Yet the most exacting enactment of Rosenzweig’s theology was private, where truth flickers in the risky traffic between souls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

With this enactment Millet hoped to carry visitors “back 400 years”—despite the steam tugboats that would nudge the Spanish ships toward shore.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

You mentioned that other countries have done similar enactments.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

In general, that anxiety shows up in the defenses against it through a wide variety of hypermasculine poses, declarations and enactments.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2024

The tales that precede his are choreographic enactments of song interpretations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

Such stories and dramatic enactments can bring shared attention to these kinds of challenges, and we know that shared attention is one mechanism that can help people cooperate and solve coordination dilemmas.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023

By a series of legislative enactments and decisions of courts, special privileges have been conferred upon railroad companies antagonistic to, and destructive of, the rights of the people.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud




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