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Recent Examples of enact The enhanced insurance subsidies were always intended as a short-term fix to the surge in premiums that Obamacare — a law Democrats enacted on an entirely partisan basis — created. Sally C. Pipes, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025 Ibsen’s title character is a spoiled, headstrong young woman who, newly and unhappily married to a dull scholar, enacts a Machiavellian scheme to advance his career and her social standing, with catastrophic results. Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025 But some of the proposals have already been enacted, the newspaper noted, including cutting refugee admissions and proritizing Afrikaners, the white minority who created and enforced South Africa’s system of apartheid. Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025 Working with an enacting bill that has already been signed into law, people could exempt $125,000 from the value of personal property that’s used to make money for their business. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for enact
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  • The quarterback play simply isn’t good enough to out-score opponents, or even force them into pass-heavy play scripts.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Game 3’s mid-afternoon start time suited TV but made things even more difficult for hitters as shadows passed in front of the plate, eventually to the outfield.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • Related Stories Ofcom’s investigation found that the documentary’s failure to disclose that the 13-year-old narrator’s father held a position in the Hamas-run administration constituted a material breach of rules requiring factual programs to provide audiences with accurate information.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Gestures, colloquialisms, facial expressions, local cuisine, and the like are not incidental to a tongue but constitute it; sometimes, to capture a word or phrase, in writing or in an algorithm, is to stamp out its meaning.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • But integration can’t be legislated from the top down alone.
    Emeka Ajene, semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In one of the newsier moments of the fest, UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said ministers are prepared to legislate if YouTube declines to properly promote public service content.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
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  • Jeri said the measure, starting just after midnight and approved by the Council of Ministers, authorizes the deployment of the armed forces alongside the police to maintain public order.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
  • At that time, voters approved extending a capital-improvement property tax at the current rate to fund six categories of projects, including a new Little Rock District Court facility.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2025
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  • Multiple board members cited the ability to make the time commitment and experience in K-12 education as desirable characteristics.
    Edward McKinnon, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Farke has a decision to make at Turf Moor on Saturday.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Enact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enact. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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