as in accreditations
the granting of power to perform various acts or duties
the committee has been given a mandate to reform the process for admitting applicants to the university
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as in orders
to request the doing of by virtue of one's authority
the president of the sports league has mandated drug testing for all active members
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Recent Examples of mandates
Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Do not wait for government mandates to become a compliance requirement for doing business.
—Denis Mandich, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Yet that threatens to distract the Fed from its congressional mandates of keeping inflation and unemployment low.
—Christopher Rugaber, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
The contract mandates that York be jointly employed by both the city and the authority.
—Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Aug. 2025
Perhaps the most visible expression of employer revenge is the sweeping return-to-office (RTO) mandates.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
This milestone comes when airlines face increasing mandates to incorporate SAF into their fuel mix.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025
Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
At a press conference in Tampa, Ladapo called vaccine mandates unethical.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Ringing the bell mandates an average yearly addition to profits of $26 billion.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
The law mandates universities to create a mechanism for students to report violators and to evaluate whether professors are compliant in tenure reviews every five years.
—Cate Charron, IndyStar, 28 Aug. 2025
To strengthen border security, the framework mandates biometric monitoring at every port of entry by 2030 and sets a staffing floor of 22,000 full-time Border Patrol agents.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Equitably sharing quantum computing benefits will require an inclusive, multi-stakeholder governance framework that mandates transparency and equitable access.
—Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
The city’s own policies, such as the Affordable Requirements Ordinance, which mandates that developers include affordable units, are grossly limited by aldermanic control over zoning.
—Miguel Chacon, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
The lawsuit follows Texas Senate Bill 10, which mandates the display of the Ten Commandments in every Texas classroom.
—Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 25 Aug. 2025
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Kennedy previously ran an anti-vaccine group and campaigned on ending vaccine mandates.
—Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Do not wait for government mandates to become a compliance requirement for doing business.
—Denis Mandich, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Yet that threatens to distract the Fed from its congressional mandates of keeping inflation and unemployment low.
—Christopher Rugaber, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
The contract mandates that York be jointly employed by both the city and the authority.
—Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Aug. 2025
Perhaps the most visible expression of employer revenge is the sweeping return-to-office (RTO) mandates.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
This milestone comes when airlines face increasing mandates to incorporate SAF into their fuel mix.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
The law mandates that second-degree persistent felony offenders be sentenced to a prison term within the penalty range for the next highest degree of felony.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
At a press conference in Tampa, Ladapo called vaccine mandates unethical.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Ringing the bell mandates an average yearly addition to profits of $26 billion.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
The law mandates universities to create a mechanism for students to report violators and to evaluate whether professors are compliant in tenure reviews every five years.
—Cate Charron, IndyStar, 28 Aug. 2025
To strengthen border security, the framework mandates biometric monitoring at every port of entry by 2030 and sets a staffing floor of 22,000 full-time Border Patrol agents.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Equitably sharing quantum computing benefits will require an inclusive, multi-stakeholder governance framework that mandates transparency and equitable access.
—Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
The city’s own policies, such as the Affordable Requirements Ordinance, which mandates that developers include affordable units, are grossly limited by aldermanic control over zoning.
—Miguel Chacon, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
The lawsuit follows Texas Senate Bill 10, which mandates the display of the Ten Commandments in every Texas classroom.
—Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mandates
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Its national accreditations limit how many autopsies each of those pathologists can do — a rule that’s designed to help keep the doctors from being overworked and error-prone but causes backlogs when there’s too much demand.—
Audrey Dutton,
ProPublica,
26 Aug. 2025
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Prospective patients should verify clinic accreditations and surgeon qualifications.—
Kyle J. Russell,
The Enquirer,
29 Nov. 2024
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Continue reading … ORDER FROM THE COURT – Georgia judge orders Fani Willis to redo search for records in Trump election case.—
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FOXNews.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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As the documentary depicts through footage of the rescue efforts, all of those outside tensions make the two rescue parties reluctant to work together, until the government orders the special forces team to use the indigenous search party’s knowledge of the forest in their favor.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
1 Sep. 2025
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In 34 states, CVS will continue to offer COVID vaccines for those who fall under the new FDA authorizations.—
Will McDuffie,
ABC News,
4 Sep. 2025
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On April 27 Kennedy announced that emergency-use authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines had been terminated.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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The filing doesn’t specify how much money the woman is seeking in damages and requests a jury trial.—
Olivia Lloyd,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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The complaint requests a jury trial.—
Kelli Arseneau,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Common sense dictates that Marlowe simply kept his head down for a few hundred years, went to Memphis, and popped up as Elvis Presley.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Additionally, the law dictates that state scholarship funding used in high school for more than 29 credit hours will reduce the Arkansas Access to Acceleration scholarship funding that's available to students after high school.—
Edward McKinnon,
Arkansas Online,
4 Sep. 2025
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The document stated that essential items include licenses, passports, Social Security cards, immigration papers, birth certificates, non-cosmetic jewelry, computers, computer drives, and family heirlooms such as photo albums, artwork and urns.—
Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Sep. 2025
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Newly arrived in Milwaukee as refugees in 2013, Ibrahim and Osman had to figure out how to do everything themselves, like applying for Social Security cards and getting driver’s licenses.—
Sophie Carson,
jsonline.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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To take just one timely and pertinent example, , a provision of HR 1 would have banned partisan gerrymanders — requiring states to set up independent redistricting commissions.—
Karlyn Bowman,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Establishes policy supporting nonpartisan redistricting commissions nationwide.—
Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Mandates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mandates. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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