as in passes
to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action
Congress enacts all laws relating to foreign trade and immigration
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Recent Examples of enacts
Commissioners’ closest vote involved the portion of the budget legislation that enacts a less than 1% increase in household trash fees.
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Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
The rule also increases the maximum annual cost-sharing limitation and enacts stricter income-verification measures.
—Joseph Choi, The Hill, 2 July 2025
Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
The rule also increases the maximum annual cost-sharing limitation and enacts stricter income-verification measures.
—Joseph Choi, The Hill, 2 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enacts
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As one example, a recent study found that in San Diego County, rents increase by more than $1,700 per unit annually when a city passes a Tenant Protection Ordinance.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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Most of us who are actually alive would, y’know, instead say the name of the restaurant; such is the shorthand understanding that passes between two people who have known each other for some time.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Sep. 2025
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Republicans, however, have pushed back on the idea that getting people fired for their Kirk posts constitutes cancel culture.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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But there’s also a useful ambiguity inherent in our current understanding of what constitutes a TV Movie.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
12 Sep. 2025
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Cannon-Brookes is urging Australia to show more ambition on climate action, even as the new government legislates plans to strengthen the country’s carbon emissions cuts.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
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His wife approves or rejects the content ideas as well as his daughter, who is a sophomore in high school, but Musselman has no fear of putting himself out there.—
Haley Sawyer,
Oc Register,
19 Sep. 2025
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If the council approves the plan, the mayor would get all the parking revenue that previously went to districts during all future years.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
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This dictates the color used for things like menu selections and buttons in various apps.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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And their production dictates the amount circulating.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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