fiat
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“Legislative fiat may not take the place of fact in the judicial determination of issues involving life, liberty, or property,” Justice Pierce Butler wrote in Western & Atlantic Railroad v.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
At the same time they also note possible black-swan event risks like crises caused by sovereign debt, food or fiat collapse.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
Customers can use the platform to manage both fiat currency and stablecoins—cryptocurrencies pegged to the U.S. dollar or other assets—allowing for 24/7 operations.
From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026
If the justice were genuinely worried about this possibility, one would not expect him to erase a key safeguard against it by judicial fiat.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
“Yeah. He came fiat out and said he wasn’t going to sell the junk.”
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
Once spoken, the fiats cannot change without wounding the leader’s credibility.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022
Yoo makes it clear that he thinks such executive fiats would be unconstitutional.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2020
President Dwight Eisenhower, who had put himself above the fray, began to fight back with information leaks and administrative fiats.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2020
With aristocratic privileges created and enforced by government fiats there were few meaningful opportunities for the common citizen to advance their business interests.
From Economist ● Sep. 2, 2013
How the fiats of the Invisible King are to be issued, we are not informed.
From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by William Archer
Vocabulary lists containing fiat
"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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Texas v. Johnson (1989)
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