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enact

[en-akt] / ɛnˈækt /




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And that’s before the bad ideas they enact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

ServiceNow’s AI Control Tower allows organizations to enact proper governance and security protocols for AI agents.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

In September, TikTok agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million and enact limits for teen users, avoiding a trial over claims related to child safety on the platform.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Each of us has that ability to enact change.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Before he could enact for her some gesture of loving acceptance, she turned, and she and Leon marched on, calling out the boys’ names.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

But sometimes the law Congress enacts explicitly directs the judiciary to defer to the views of federal agencies who have studied a difficult problem and made evidence-based recommendations.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

Golding is writing about the instability of the self, after all, and his prose enacts that instability: shifting perspectives and uncertain ground, relieved by moments of sudden, disquieting clarity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

If elected governor, Villaraigosa said he would “reform and overhaul” the California Air Resources Board, which enacts many of the state’s environmental laws — including the low carbon fuel standard and cap-and-invest program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

The true danger lies not only in what the state enacts, but in what the public comes to accept as normal, even necessary.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

In a separate act, the Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance, which outlaws slavery in the territories north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi Rivers.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Singapore enacted a Transboundary Haze Pollution Act in 2014, but enforcement has been stymied by jurisdictional barriers and challenges obtaining evidence from overseas.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Getting it enacted into law will be harder.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

But Haitians understand the horror of zombies to be one of dispossession, a curse enacted by enslavers that binds victims to mindless servitude, denying them liberation in the afterlife.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

Sacramento already enacted statutory exemptions for qualifying urban infill housing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

I know not what further scheme they would have enacted upon my already distracted frame had events not transpired which changed considerably the issue of this incarceration.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Council members must get buy-in from their colleagues before enacting new 41.18 zones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

The point of the summit would be to codify that view—and to take the first steps toward enacting it.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

District Court Judge Indira Talwani, a federal judge in Massachusetts, who will decide in the coming days whether to issue a permanent ban on enacting the system for this election.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

But the spokesperson stressed Kosovo would focus on enacting its deal with Denmark "before entering into any new agreement of a similar nature".

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

After riding Sunshine, a group of us played at Civil War games, enacting the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, skirmishing with wooden swords and firing log cannons.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly


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