dictates
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“Johnnie Walker Black Label. And something Japanese,” he dictates to one of the two assistants scurrying around his palatial open-plan home in L.A.’s Beverly Grove.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
"The amount of flexibility of the polymer dictates how many bonds it has. It allows us to lower the number of bonds each particle has and make lattices we have never seen before."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
The 9th Circuit judges in Friday’s opinion said that “this clause expressly dictates which sovereign has the authority to prescribe the manner in which congressional elections are conducted.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Even when intergalactic forces take pains to make the Lantern Corps’ selection process fair, Earth’s unspoken dictates about worthiness make that impossible.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
“The Time Bureau dictates that we stay hidden. We cannot, under any circumstances, change things in the past. So you wouldn’t have seen any of my fellow travelers.”
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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