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enshrining

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verb

present participle of enshrine

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of enshrining
Adjective
This includes re-enshrining, codifying and strengthening our inalienable rights in the United States and abolishing ICE to ensure immigration and the struggle of migrants is treated as a civilian one, requiring support instead of brutality and criminalization. — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
Verb
Future administrations might also develop a more nuanced policy, enshrining some civil rights for transgender people but sidestepping the question of playing on sports teams, Soucek said. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2026 Drake’s midlife crisis is seemingly less about shoring up his legacy as a legendary artist than enshrining himself as a historic main character capable of capturing the public’s attention by appealing to its most base instincts. — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026 Those realities have not prevented the teams themselves from enshrining the guilty, or the allegedly guilty. — Mac Engel july 24, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 July 2026 So this was really a dispute among the justices about understanding how far the victors basically of the civil war wanted to go in enshrining ideas about broad US citizenship. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 1 July 2026 Earlier this year, the General Assembly passed the Maryland Voting Rights Act, enshrining components of the federal VRA into state law. — Anthony G. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026 Trump signed the bill, enshrining their orders into law. — Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 22 June 2026 State constitutions, which often have clauses enshrining equality and education, can serve as a pathway for challenges to segregation that results from economics and housing patterns, said Robert Williams, a professor of law emeritus at Rutgers University. — Annie Ma, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026 That comment was even entered as an exhibit in the court case, officially enshrining Musk’s lies into the judicial record. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 30 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enshrining
Verb
  • The golf course would be ripped up and rebuilt, including elevating the playing area by several feet to protect against surge flooding.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Seeking new crypto money, Christie’s and Sotheby’s cut all other legitimizing actors out of the loop with NFTs, elevating what might previously have been categorized as illustration, graphic art, or a social media meme to the status of fine art.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Duff returned to touring this year after nearly two decades off the road to launch her Lucky Me Tour, promoting her February album release Luck… Or Something.
    — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2026
  • National Organization for Women president Kim Villanueva described the content as often promoting women as objects and encouraging or glorifying rape culture.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Higher oil prices have largely offset lower export volumes, lifting revenue above prewar estimates, but spending is set to rise faster.
    — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • In May 2020, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three astronauts reached the orbiting lab just 3 hours and 3 minutes after lifting off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 1 Oct. 2026

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“Enshrining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enshrining. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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