enacted

verb

past tense of enact
as in passed
to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action Congress enacts all laws relating to foreign trade and immigration

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Recent Examples of enacted Governing parties said the deadline to enroll was enacted to curb the increasing length of time taken to reach a final result after election day. — ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026 Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proposed a federal moratorium on new data centers in March, and the pragmatic governor Kathy Hochul enacted the first statewide one in New York in July. — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026 Federal officials say nuclear power is safe, in large part due to the comprehensive regulations and safeguards enacted following the Three Mile Island disaster. — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2026 Well, in 2017 its legislators enacted fiscal guardrails and stayed within them. — Elona Vaisnys, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026 These include six Illinois towns where data centers have been canceled since last year, and 13 which have enacted moratoriums or restrictive ordinances, according to Robinson Meyer, Heatmap’s executive editor. — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026 After the 2023 mall shooting, Anutin, who was interior minister at the time, enacted a one-year ban on the issue of new personal gun licenses and suspended public carry permits, among other gun control measures. — Nat Sumon, NBC news, 7 Aug. 2026 Idaho's restrictions apply to public educational institutions, while other states, including Utah, Florida and Kansas, have enacted similar measures. — Darrielle Fair, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026 In the 1970s, New York City enacted a zoning regulation targeted at protecting the fast-eroding industrial base. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enacted
  1. passed
  2. constituted
  3. approved
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  • The ban has been in place long enough that an entire cohort of girls has passed through adolescence without stepping foot in a secondary school classroom.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Castillo’s bill passed unanimously in the Assembly earlier this year and sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee in June with bipartisan support.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of passed
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  • In 1970 people with tenure or tenure-track jobs constituted 73% of those teaching at colleges and universities.
    — Paul Osterman, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The waters around Sicily, which was colonized by the ancient Greeks and later conquered by the Romans around 240 BC, constituted one of the ancient world’s most important trade routes.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of constituted
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  • Many of these proposals require constitutional amendments approved by two-thirds of Congress and three-fourths of the states.
    — Andrew Cuomo, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Mayor Ross McMullin and the Keller City Council unanimously approved a resolution early Thursday morning in opposition to an upcoming data center proposed for a site in Westlake near the Keller border.
    — Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of approved

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