decreed

past tense of decree
as in ordered
to request the doing of by virtue of one's authority the new supervisor decreed that thenceforth coffee breaks would have a 15-minute limit

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Recent Examples of decreed But that’s what happened in 2018 when King Mswati III decreed that Swaziland was changing its name to Eswatini. The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 15 Aug. 2025
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  • Lisbon’s City Council shut operations of other streetcars and ordered immediate inspections.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The administration has not yet ordered the removal of any items.
    BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • Given the number of works Apple may have infringed upon, the plaintiffs, Hendrix and Roberson, have requested the court to turn their complaint into a class action and block the company from further infringement of this kind.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The big tech giant won’t be required to sell its Chrome browser — one of the remedies originally requested by the Biden-era Department of Justice.
    Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Decreed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decreed. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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