enacts

verb

present tense third-person singular of enact
as in passes
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 enacts The legislation enacts new work requirements and greater vetting for Medicaid, the low-income program that thousands of Alaskans depend on for healthcare. — Matthew Choi The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026 The rest of the network enacts the decision, as other genes are activated or suppressed farther downstream, but isn’t active in it. — Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026 Trump quickly enacts a temporary 10% global levy using a different law. — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2026 Undaunted, Demczur used his squeegee blade to carve a hole in the plaster so the men could kick through the wall to escape—a process Demczur re-enacts for the series. — ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2026 The leader who takes bodyful ownership of their life and enacts disciplined practices to sense its rhythms will not only enjoy greater harmony and wellbeing but bring greater coherence to their work and to their world. — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 On just one unchanging set, an old-time concert hall designed by Rachel Hauck and made appropriately ominous, a tiny ensemble enacts a whole Greek tragedy of love and sacrifice that goes from the land of the living to the underworld and back. — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 22 July 2026 He gets framed by Foster’s kingpin and then enacts a revenge campaign. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 21 July 2026 Students, parents and community activists are hoping the board enacts the policy before the first day of school in August. — Emily McLeod, CBS News, 14 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enacts
  1. passes
  2. constitutes
  3. legislates
  4. approves
  5. ordains
  6. dictates
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  • Even if October passes without another conflagration, November brings its own hazards.
    — Ali Vaez, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Equatic pumps seawater through an electrolyzer, where an electric current passes through a sandwich of plastic and metal plates and separates the water into two streams, one alkaline and one acidic, while also producing oxygen and hydrogen.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of passes
Verb
  • This interservice competition may increasingly normalize what constitutes acceptable coercion below the nuclear threshold and shape targeting priorities, as well as escalation management.
    — Dmitry Adamsky, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The question of what constitutes an official announcement is resolved by the SEC declaring a company's S-1 effective, an IPO pricing or an exchange assigning a ticker to the stock.
    — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of constitutes
Verb
  • An authoritarian government does that arithmetic out loud and legislates against the projection.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Through the years, Dargan was involved in high-profile issues in the legislature because the public safety committee legislates guns and gambling.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 24 Apr. 2026
Definition of legislates
Verb
  • The committee will dissolve once the board approves a new superintendent’s contract.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The gas station will also need an operating permit from the Placer County Air Pollution Control District, which reviews and approves the health risk assessment.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of approves
Verb
  • And one of the tenets of that faith is that God ordains everything.
    — Scott Pelley, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
Definition of ordains
Verb
  • Protocol dictates that the family of the deceased later send return gifts that are worth half the value of the cash gift that was given.
    — Mimi Hanaoka, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Cade Cunningham is the leader of this team, and his health pretty much dictates how well this team will do.
    — David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of dictates

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“Enacts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enacts. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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