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Still, this arrangement means that savings in any fiat currency are vulnerable to the decisions of the central bank that manages it.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

Investors, politicians and economists said they wanted a world of fiat currencies with floating exchange rates, and they’re getting it good and hard in Japan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

It looks like the so-called debasement trade, fleeing the dollar and other fiat currencies for gold, is over for now.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

Security shouldn’t be dictated by administrative fiat; it should be treated as a critical competitive feature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

Today the AT is a wilderness by design—actually, by fiat, since many of the properties Shaffer passed were later compulsorily purchased and quietly returned to woodland.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

She ventures to pluck from the forbidden tree of metaphysics; and, reckless of the fiats of the schools, she entered fearlessly into those inquiries which have appalled both Greek and schoolman.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women by John Lord