dictated
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Online thrifters like that they save money, help reduce waste and can ignore trends dictated by the industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The economic war in the Persian Gulf is dictated as much by how much the countries in the region can move their exports over land rather than through the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
But clan representatives said that reports of Oyo having a son were not sufficient because the child had not been formally presented to the royal clan as dictated by Tooro tradition.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
This is often because studios themselves dictated the stories and angles being written about.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
He and the others were preparing a research paper about us—to be published in some scientific journal—so each morning he dictated the results of the previous day’s tests into a tape recorder.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
