enact
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Ultimately, pro-democracy Americans will need to learn and enact what can be described as political grit — an antidote to despair that combines practical, spiritual and emotional approaches to political action.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
The exemptions would sunset in 2032 so legislators could review the bill’s effect before deciding whether to enact the policy permanently.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
"No matter how much they ban foreign culture and even enact laws, North Korea is a place where there is nothing the supreme leader is unable to do."
From BBC • May 5, 2026
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has suggested Congress could enact the idea through reconciliation, a process lawmakers used to pass a tax and spending law last year and avoid the filibuster.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
Like the Red Queen’s bewildered servants in Alice in Wonderland, the genes scurry about to enact the instructions—build a thorax, make a wing—but in the wrong places or at the wrong times.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing enact
The Mayflower Compact (1620)
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Vocabulary from history writings about the Triangle Factory Fire
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Just Do It: Act
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