enact
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City Council moved to adopt relatively lenient “Zone Zero” laws for homes in fire danger zones, measures that do not align with the plans that state agencies are working to enact.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
She is now looking at trying to maximise production from existing North Sea fields through "tie backs" and enact a radical reform to break the link between electricity prices and rising gas prices.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
Not until the Civil War did Congress enact a national draft, and even then it was met with significant resistance through both legal and political action and riots in the streets.
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026
The move comes after Australia became the first country in the world to enact a ban on social media for under 16s, triggering a lawsuit from Reddit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Like the Red Queen’s bewildered servants in Alice in Wonderland, the genes scurry about to enact the instructions—build a thorax, make a wing—but in the wrong places or at the wrong times.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Vocabulary lists containing enact
The Mayflower Compact (1620)
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Just Do It: Act
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