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enshrine

[en-shrahyn] / ɛnˈʃraɪn /


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In response, Hyundai’s union has made unprecedented demands seeking to enshrine job protections in the era of robots and AI.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

Once the slave power had been vanquished, the Reconstruction Congress sought to enshrine birthright citizenship in the Constitution so it could never be stripped away again.

From Slate Jun. 30, 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

Over the years, he helped various communities in some capacity to incorporate and eventually started working to enshrine the liberty cities model into law.

From Salon May 3, 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

Unions at the ILO say this by extension enshrines the right to industrial action, but employers disagree.

From Barron's May 21, 2026

In fact, Article IV of the treaty enshrines enrichment as an “inalienable right.”

From Slate Feb. 27, 2026

It also enshrines separation of powers and judicial independence, and guarantees women's rights, freedom of expression and media freedom.

From BBC Mar. 13, 2025

Using a style of elegant lyricism, which enshrines tiny moments into glisteningly miraculous turning points, Erice lets the exchanges between the people he’s conceived play out without the need to advance the plot.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 2024

But the glory of the Cathedral of Antwerp is within—not in the church itself, but in the great paintings which it enshrines.

From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

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

Only three Ramones songs ever made it to the Billboard Hot 100 — “Rockaway Beach,” “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker,” and “Do You Wanna Dance,” all absolute bangers that should be enshrined in the culture.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

The principle of birthright citizenship, known in legal terms as "jus soli" or "right of the soil", is enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

It was enshrined in the county library, where the 235-page history that had been written about Permian football was more detailed than any of the histories about the town itself.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

Tegmark, whose appeal to the pope preceded Leo XIV’s warning that AI risked enshrining an “anti-human vision,” said he has been texting with AI company leaders over the past week.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Yousef, whose community strongly promotes gender equality, said she also wants to work on "defending women's rights and enshrining them in the country's constitution".

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

They assumed that Congress had wide discretion to restrict the removal of executive officers, enshrining that view into law through the creation of myriad independent agencies.

From Slate Dec. 4, 2025

Economist Ananish Chaudhuri said the conversation about enshrining the Treaty principles in law was needed "if New Zealand is to remain a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural nation".

From BBC Feb. 5, 2025

What is this magical arrangement of words enshrining what ideas and emotions that gives us a zest for life, that makes us drunk with aesthetic pleasure?

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell




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