as in forbidding
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as in ordering
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 decreeing
Richard Edwards, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
Rather than decreeing top-down policies, companies should engage employees—across roles, functions, and work modalities—in conversations about what hybrid work should look like.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
This leads us to another old-school corner of Ryder Cup regulations — the ordinance decreeing a victory total of 14 points for the defending champ, and 14 1/2 points to the returning loser.
—Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
No Mob boss, cheerfully decreeing that an inconvenient witness be rubbed out, could be more resolute.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
His cabinet, meanwhile, conspires to remove their own children from any ballot, before coldly decreeing that kids from the worst performing schools should be sent away with the 456.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
Rather than decreeing top-down policies, companies should engage employees—across roles, functions, and work modalities—in conversations about what hybrid work should look like.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
This leads us to another old-school corner of Ryder Cup regulations — the ordinance decreeing a victory total of 14 points for the defending champ, and 14 1/2 points to the returning loser.
—Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
No Mob boss, cheerfully decreeing that an inconvenient witness be rubbed out, could be more resolute.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decreeing
Noun
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But Cheney rarely tried to combat the image painted by critics and comedians of him as a dour partisan, dark and forbidding.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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In ordering the culling, CFIA repeatedly cited the need to prevent damage to the country’s nearly $7 billion poultry industry.—
Max Saltman,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Participants are asked to avoid shopping, streaming, ordering online and purchasing fast food.—
Alex Perry,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The two were found by Portland police in a different location from where the shooting occurred after responding to a call from a man requesting help.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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Minutes later, police received a call from a different location from a man who said he’d been shot by federal officers and was requesting help, according to Day and dispatch audio.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The district, which represents one of the fastest-growing communities in Kansas, has in recent years been roiled by controversies over mask mandates, purported book banning, the treatment of transgender students and use of a Kansans for Life video in classrooms.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
21 Oct. 2025
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Police in London urged organizers to cancel a protest against the banning of the group Palestine Action due to take place on Saturday.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Service members such as Partezana were sworn to silence for 43 years following the tests — until the law mandating that silence was lifted in 1996 — and given little warning about the harmful physical side effects of nuclear fallout.—
Hope Hodge Seck,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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In Maine, widely considered a blue state, a measure mandating voters provide photo ID before voting failed.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Current lithium-ion battery solutions often impose practical constraints on business users, including three-hour charging times and limited operating ranges of around 40 kilometers.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Jan. 2026
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And the latest reports suggest that EV charging is nothing compared to the massive demand that new data centers will impose.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Police are asking anyone with information to contact them.—
Laura Fay,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Deliberations are ongoing and the company could decide not to proceed with a listing, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information isn’t public.—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Gen Z is 'monkey barring' — not cheating.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Decreeing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decreeing. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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