as in charged
to establish or apply as a charge or penalty
that state now imposes a fine for text messaging while driving
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Recent Examples of imposed
Authorities in France's capital have imposed restrictions on the sale and public consumption of alcohol, hoping to ease the burden on hospitals of people being brought in with dehydration as Paris bakes in a record-breaking heat wave.
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Duarte Dias,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
More than a dozen countries have imposed digital services taxes.
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Kevin Breuninger,
CNBC,
26 June 2026
The policy isn't in place now, though authorities have imposed other restrictions on asylum seekers.
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ABC News,
25 June 2026
The reviewers imposed a competence penalty against all of the engineers who purportedly used AI as compared to non-AI users.
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Michelle Travis,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Aquino voted against the proposal because of higher election costs imposed by Sacramento County.
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Corey Schmidt,
Sacbee.com,
25 June 2026
There was relative peace for 11 years, until a second civil war erupted in 1983, when leaders in Khartoum imposed sharia (Islamic) law and accelerated repression of the southern Christian rebels, which ultimately allowed a ruthless military officer, Omar al-Bashir, to come to power in 1989.
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Janine Di Giovanni,
Vanity Fair,
25 June 2026
The agreement imposed limits on Iran's nuclear program to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
19 June 2026
Sanctions relief for Iran would follow a timetable that Washington and Tehran would need to agree upon and extend to the removal of punitive measures imposed on the country by the UN Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors.
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Hamidreza Azizi,
Time,
19 June 2026
Duarte Dias,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
More than a dozen countries have imposed digital services taxes.
—
Kevin Breuninger,
CNBC,
26 June 2026
The policy isn't in place now, though authorities have imposed other restrictions on asylum seekers.
—
ABC News,
25 June 2026
The reviewers imposed a competence penalty against all of the engineers who purportedly used AI as compared to non-AI users.
—
Michelle Travis,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Aquino voted against the proposal because of higher election costs imposed by Sacramento County.
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Corey Schmidt,
Sacbee.com,
25 June 2026
There was relative peace for 11 years, until a second civil war erupted in 1983, when leaders in Khartoum imposed sharia (Islamic) law and accelerated repression of the southern Christian rebels, which ultimately allowed a ruthless military officer, Omar al-Bashir, to come to power in 1989.
—
Janine Di Giovanni,
Vanity Fair,
25 June 2026
The agreement imposed limits on Iran's nuclear program to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.
—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
19 June 2026
Sanctions relief for Iran would follow a timetable that Washington and Tehran would need to agree upon and extend to the removal of punitive measures imposed on the country by the UN Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors.
—
Hamidreza Azizi,
Time,
19 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imposed
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He was charged with one count of operating a boat or watercraft while intoxicated or under the influence and is set to appear in court in July.
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Another child was rescued from the rubble in Venezuela’s La Guaira region, marking a poignant moment at the close of a long and emotionally charged day of crisis response on Saturday.
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Abdennebi Bioui, a construction tycoon and former lawmaker with the co-governing Authenticity and Modernity Party, or PAM, who headed a Regional Council, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $15,989.
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In Florida, you can be fined for putting garbage in the wrong place.
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The chant has cost Mexico hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines levied by FIFA.
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The punishment levied could include multimillion-dollar fines, a loss of future draft picks or voiding Leonard’s contract with the team.
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The facility, which Ruffin described as a regional jail run by an independent agency, has been essentially closed as damage is assessed, the State Bureau of Investigation said.
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City codes show violators of the nuisance ordinances could be assessed fines in municipal court.
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In addition to the fear of deportation, the ruling puts thousands of immigrants at risk of losing their work authorization and their jobs, according to a Haitian-American journalist.
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That lawsuit, in part, accuses City Attorney Miko Brown of pushing airport officials to investigate a charter airline's safety record -- not because of genuine safety concerns, but to create legal cover for a city council vote that put $90 million in federal grant money at risk.
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“Imposed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imposed. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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