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enforce
verb as in put a rule, plan in force
Strongest matches
accomplish, administer, apply, carry out, implement, impose, invoke, prosecute, reinforce, require, sanction
Strong matches
administrate, coerce, commandeer, compel, constrain, demand, dictate, discharge, dragoon, drive, effect, emphasize, exact, execute, exert, expect, extort, fortify, fulfill, goad, hound, impel, incite, lash, make, necessitate, oblige, perform, press, spur, strain, stress, strong-arm, support, urge, whip, wrest
Weak matches
crack down, egg on, force upon, insist on, lean on, put into effect, put screws to
Example Sentences
Foster, who has starred in “3:10 to Yuma,” “Six Feet Under” and the Disney Channel series “Flash Forward,” asked the court to enforce a 2018 prenuptial agreement that called for an “equitable division” of their marital assets and debts and the incorporation of their “marital dissolution agreement and agreed parenting plan” into their final divorce decree.
The California Phone-Free Schools Act ordered the state’s 1,000 school districts, charter schools and county education offices to draft student cellphone policies by July 1, 2026 — and leaves it up to schools to decide whether to enforce outright bans or some level of restrictions to “support pupil learning and well-being.”
The district has directed schools to enforce the ban beginning Feb. 18, the day after Presidents Day weekend.
"What South Africa do and we have always believed is that the scrum is an area where you can enforce yourself," 2007 World Cup winner BJ Botha told BBC Sport.
Once you believe that your group is inherently socially superior to a designed “out group,” and that they have the right to enforce this superiority through force, that belief warps and distorts the rest of your character.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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