ENACTMENTS Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

enactments

noun

plural of enactment

as in laws

a rule of conduct or action laid down by a governing authority and especially a legislature as a result of an enactment by Congress, this breathtaking canyon will be permanently protected from development

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higher laws

as in executions

the doing of an action the enactment of the crime is suggested but never actually shown on screen

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Recent Examples of enactments Through her film that moves fluidly between re-enactments and verite documentary styles, Duong crafts an emotionally-wrenching story of family division that leads to peace and healing for a father who left behind siblings in Vietnam. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026 Featuring interviews from a wide range of people across the ideological spectrum, as well as top-tier acting talent for historical re-enactments, this is a prestige series that's worth checking out. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 19 June 2026 The day brings indigenous Andean music, colorful traditional attire and historical re-enactments of Inca ceremonies. — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 2 June 2026 Barbie Ferreira stars as a young woman working as a content moderator for a TikTok-like video platform, discovers what appears to be re-enactments of murders from the original film. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 12 Apr. 2026 Volkspele were historical cosplay events for preteens, musical re-enactments of the Great Trek — the 19th-century migration of Afrikaner settlers away from British rule, heading inland in ox-wagons, that has been mythologized through tales of women and children crossing the Drakensberg barefoot. — Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026 Instead, in order to protect their identities, their words are read aloud during re-enactments by powerhouse actresses such as Emma Thompson (who squeezes herself beneath an axle) and Kate Dickie (performing, as the nurse, on all fours on Kenmure Street itself). — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 1 Feb. 2026 Director Mohammed Ali Naqvi’s film uses drone footage and re-enactments to tell the story of eight passengers dangling from a cable car over a ravine after a wire snaps. — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2026 History sprang to life at Old Poway Park with historical re-enactments at the Rendezvous in Poway event. — Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for enactments

Noun

As of March, 386 people had been arrested under the Beijing and Hong Kong national security laws, with 176 people and four companies convicted, Reuters reported, citing the local Security Bureau.

— Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 11 Sep. 2026
Albert Ramdin, secretary general of the Organization of American States, said while the hemispheric body cannot compel countries to keep undocumented migrants when their laws do not permit it, as in the case of the termination of TPS.

— Gérard Maxineau, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of laws

Noun

California’s next governor will determine whether to keep or toss Gavin Newsom’s halt on executions.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
And the American Civil Liberties Union discovered that the Federal Bureau of Prisons had spent millions on staffing needed to carry out executions.

— Max Blau, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of executions

Noun

In a handful of impressively resonant scenes with King, Kylie gives Gillian an entire new generation to encourage toward the messy exuberant existence that Sally, at least in the sequel’s first few acts, vows to keep at bay.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026
The move to resentence the brothers was one of the last acts of George Gascón’s tenure as Los Angeles County district attorney, and current Dist.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of acts

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Dataset is a structural problem, because today’s data quality reflects years of process decisions, system implementations, acquisitions and work-arounds, and there is no shortcut through it.

— Pankaj Prasoon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
The newer mechanism stopped the attack on one Intel generation but failed on another, indicating that implementations can differ between chip designs.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of implementations

Noun

What Folsom proposed The City Council was considering two ordinances Tuesday that approached the issue differently.

— Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2026
The Board of County Commissioners approved a resolution last week toward the start of a seven-hour meeting, in a unanimous, single vote that grouped together numerous ordinances.

— Sharon Udasin, Sun Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of ordinances

Noun

If everything else goes to plan, Tentsile will begin early fulfillment deliveries in May and standard fulfillments in August.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Mar. 2026
Palestinians and Israeli Jews also came to regard the other side’s actions as fulfillments of their own national nightmares, ethnic cleansing for one and extermination for the other.

— Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025

Definition of fulfillments

Noun

Meanwhile, teams lose massive chunks of their time in the administrative dead zones between protocol amendments, site activations, electronic data reconciliation and regulatory filings.

— Anshima Raj, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Find out the best natural soil amendments to use to raise soil pH, plus get simple tips to keep your soil from becoming too acidic again.

— Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of amendments

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Still, with all the aforementioned accomplishments, and decades later, Steinem said that her naysayers used her bunny work in an attempt to discredit her.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
In contrast, there was no such rush to recognize Steinem beyond her liberal and centrist constituency, even from conservatives who had expressed respect for her accomplishments as an influential historical figure.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026

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