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  • plural of mandate.
  • present tense form of mandate (3rd person singular).
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Meantime, Gov. Kathy Hochul has tried to head off a backlash over New York’s soaring electric bills by delaying her state’s CO2 emissions mandates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

They are both members of the north Atlantic defence alliance, which mandates members to defend a fellow member-nation should they be attacked.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The city must add 11,760 residential units by the end of the decade to meet state housing mandates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Soybeans feed livestock and humans, but their oil also flows into an energy economy shaped by several decades of federal renewable-fuel mandates.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Referring to them as sacred might feel uncomfortable, because the First Amendment of the Constitution tells us that this nation legally mandates separation of church and state.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz


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