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 This has been a rookie tradition for years, decreed by veteran Courtland Sutton and enforced upon Troy Franklin and Devaughn Vele last year. Luca Evans, Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2025 In February 2024, the Brazilian Supreme Court decreed her pretrial detention. Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025 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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Verb
  • The officer recalled that they had been ordered to ready themselves for a counterattack.
    Danny Makki, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • They have both been ordered to refrain from contacting each other or spending time in the district outside of school or other obligations.
    David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2025
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  • The original sword requested by administration officials was given to Eisenhower in 1947 by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Nolan Norris went down after he was tugged on the shoulder by Ali Maamar, and although the North African side requested a review and the challenge looked soft, the referee stuck with his verdict, and Campbell squeezed the spot-kick into the corner past the outstretched arm of Yanis Benchaouch.
    The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025

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“Decreed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decreed. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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