enact
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As part of the deal, the firm promised to enact two-hour daily time limits for young users, along with night-time blocks on use, muted notifications during school hours, and other changes.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
No provision of the Constitution says in so many words that Congress may not compel state officials to carry out federal law-enforcement responsibilities or to enact legislation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
A medical student pressed him on how one senator could actually enact the sweeping things he was promising.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Adam Raine’s mom, Maria, said in the news conference that the new law will help save lives and hopes that other states will enact similar legislation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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
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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
But then he enacts the scene in which Iago subtly poisons Othello’s mind into believing that his wife is having an affair with a handsome lieutenant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026
This budget enacts a “deemed approved” permitting process—which automatically certifies pending permits after an established time frame—for Department of Environmental Protection regulations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 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
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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New York City three years ago enacted one of the country’s strictest crackdowns on short-term rentals, which reduced the number of listings across the five boroughs by more than 90%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
In July, she enacted a three-year pause on any new tax break given to a company for a data centres project.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
But taken together, government pledges would cover only 27 percent of land and inland waters by the end of this decade if enacted in full.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
The administration has not detailed how such a $5,000 payment would be funded or enacted.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
But just as justice delayed is justice denied, a reform so long postponed and so grudgingly enacted was hardly worth celebrating.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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She’s enacting the No. 1 piece of advice I give all my straight, single female pals suffering from go-nowhere serial monogamy: Date a minimum of three men.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 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
Canada on Tuesday announced tariffs on roughly $20 billion of U.S. goods, days after the U.S. escalated trade tension by enacting new levies on $20 billion of Canadian goods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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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The Mayflower Compact (1620)
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