enact
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A medical student pressed him on how one senator could actually enact the sweeping things he was promising.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Morgan Stanley’s Erik Woodring speculated in a July note that Apple could enact a $200 price increase across the entire iPhone 18 lineup.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
Some have demanded the city more thoroughly investigate whether municipal finances or policies were compromised and enact safeguards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
While Judge Biedscheid's order only demands Meta make changes in New Mexico, should the 30 states prevail in their separate lawsuit against Meta, it would almost certainly need to enact platform changes across the US.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
They love to dream them up and enact them, study them and tinker with them.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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It enacts investor protections through disclosure and custody rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
A Bachardy portrait enacts an extended visual encounter between two people, its intimacy inescapable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
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
The Taoiseach said he had waited until now because he wanted the Finance Bill, which enacts the Budget changes and contains new tax provisions, to be passed.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2024
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
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People living near coasts, rivers and lakes ramp up fishing, depleting stocks rapidly until controls are enacted in some locations, along with increased farming for seaweed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
How a ban would be enacted remains to be seen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
The new law contains a provision which would allow Police Scotland to continue misconduct proceedings against officers who resign or retire but that part of the legislation has not yet been enacted.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
It passed civil rights acts that guaranteed birthright citizenship and enacted Reconstruction Acts that secured black suffrage in the South.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
He did so immediately: in 1933, less than five months after the passage of the Enabling Act, the Nazis enacted the Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring—commonly known as the Sterilization Law.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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While federal law doesn’t bar prepayment requests for nonemergency services, some states are enacting laws to address aspects of the trend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 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
What we have seen in Minneapolis is ordinary people insisting on their own vision of what we are and what we do as a country, then enacting that vision.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Luckily, she had lost her voice, and she could only smile and shrug and wave her arms gracefully, like fronds, as the children tried to guess what sort of charade she was enacting.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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The Mayflower Compact (1620)
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