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enshrine

[en-shrahyn] / ɛnˈʃraɪn /


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Yes, and the risk is that government regulation would enshrine a testing oligopoly that reduces the incentives for due diligence by evaluators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

You may not get everything you want, but we should all agree that the civil rights and liberties the founding fathers sought to enshrine in our Constitution must be defended.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Giving Americans access to high-quality, low-cost cars would enshrine him as a champion for struggling American households.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

Investigative grand juries cannot return indictments against defendants, but they are often used to enshrine evidence and subpoena witnesses for a future criminal proceeding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

Working as a lawyer in South Africa meant operating under a debased system of justice, a code of law that did not enshrine equality but its opposite.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

While no law explicitly enshrines a person's voice in Japan, the justice ministry published legally non-binding guidelines last month clarifying its protection under existing rights.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

It enshrines the commitment to uphold the Seven Principles of Public Life, and details "the overarching duty on Ministers to comply with the law and to protect the integrity of public life".

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025

The 14th Amendment permanently enshrines in the Constitution the privileges and protections of democracy.

From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2024

The human rights declaration, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948, enshrines a standard for human rights and freedoms for all people.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

The noble old structure enshrines many of the good and the great; and it is gratifying to Americans that a number of their fellow countrymen are there remembered.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 by Various

Ditka was enshrined into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1986.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

But he said "children cannot face more delays, so Government must act swiftly and ensure these measures are enshrined in law at the earliest opportunity".

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

But it is still a body of American citizens and, after the Progressive Era reforms enshrined in the 17th Amendment, elected by the people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

We all grasp what it means to be an American and how that is enshrined in the Constitution.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026

The date of it, however, was enshrined in memory, and dubbed “Foul Friday.”

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

Pope Leo XIV on Monday warned that AI risked enshrining “an anti-human vision,” replacing jobs with dehumanizing work and consuming vast amounts of water and energy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

In the aftermath of the crime, newly minted fans of Mangione quickly fitted the man with revolutionary trappings, enshrining him as an avenger of working-class power.

From Slate ● May 1, 2026

A bill aimed at enshrining in law the government's Chagos deal will not be debated in the Lords as previously planned.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026

Morocco's King Mohammed VI lauded the vote as "historic," saying "we are opening a new and victorious chapter in the process of enshrining the Moroccan character of the Sahara."

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

The goal would be unjustifiably obscured, and the aspiration of the membership stunted, through the enshrining of a false and inferior goal—a literary Golden Calf.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft


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