enactment
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Since the law’s enactment, Congress has provided funding for the national program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
The housing bill's quiet enactment would mark an unusual conclusion to months of cross-party negotiations, as a significant congressional accomplishment that the president declined to celebrate, but chose not to stop.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
The bill’s imminent enactment comes as housing affordability is front and center for many Americans.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
And this was the best he could find: “Two cherry-picked newspaper references almost 20 years apart, and at least 30 years before the enactment of the FTCA.”
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
With this enactment Millet hoped to carry visitors “back 400 years”—despite the steam tugboats that would nudge the Spanish ships toward shore.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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In general, that anxiety shows up in the defenses against it through a wide variety of hypermasculine poses, declarations and enactments.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2024
Such stories and dramatic enactments can bring shared attention to these kinds of challenges, and we know that shared attention is one mechanism that can help people cooperate and solve coordination dilemmas.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023
It includes films, a parade and historical enactments.
From Washington Post ● May 31, 2022
It noted “we are not aware of any other pending litigation in which a reorganized entity claims immunity from post-discharge statutory enactments that impose retrospective liability.”
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2019
The advancing requirements of public health are clearly traceable in the series of enactments directed to that end.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
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