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as in enacts
to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action
the city council promises to lay down new ordinances that will force dog walkers to clean up after their animals
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as in declares
to state clearly and strongly
at the risk of their popularity, the parents laid down the rules for the party and wouldn't accept any arguments
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as in specifies
to give the rules about (something) clearly and exactly
the supervisor laid down the procedure for a complaint of sexual harassment
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as in relinquishes
to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress
commanded the surrounded troops to lay down their weapons
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lays down
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Commissioners’ closest vote involved the portion of the budget legislation that enacts a less than 1% increase in household trash fees.—
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
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Continue reading … EMMY OUTRAGE – Homeland Security official fires back after actress declares 'F--- ICE' at awards show.—
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FOXNews.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Emily declares, despite half the women at the table wincing at the idea.—
Peter Larsen,
Oc Register,
5 Sep. 2025
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Each recipe is indicated by a code—O means the Four Roses distillery; B or E indicates the mashbill (B is 35 percent rye, E is 20 percent rye); S means straight whiskey; and the last letter specifies the yeast strain, each of which brings a different flavor profile to the whiskey.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
19 Aug. 2025
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Ryan Christoffel at 9to5Mac has useful analysis that specifies what happened when in recent years to help specify the release date.—
David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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In a street vacation, the city relinquishes the right of way or public service easement to an adjacent property owner or owners.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
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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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Children want to change, as Adam Phillips asserts, but adults want to stay the same.—
Rachel Kushner,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
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Similarly, Hick's law (or the Hick-Hyman law, named for psychologists William Edmund Hick and Ray Hyman) asserts that increasing the number of choices a user is presented with will increase their decision time logarithmically.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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Sometimes true reinvention requires letting go of assumptions about what defines potential, fairness or even leadership.—
Prithvi Singh Shergill,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The research defines streaming audiences as anyone who watched at least one online video — free or paid — during the past month.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 Sep. 2025
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The company probably didn't mean to draw attention to the fact that Liquid Glass occasionally renders the boundaries between different parts of a window indistinct, fomenting border disputes.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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This deepening also has an index in the formal features of his poetry—the ambiguity of his pronouns, the firm particularity of his register of images—which teeters between the mundane and the epiphanic, and renders this imbalance itself into view.—
Elaine L. Wang
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Lays down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lays%20down. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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