Thesaurus results for POLICIES

policies

noun

plural of policy

as in procedures

a way of acting or proceeding it's always been my policy not to spread rumors

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Recent Examples of policies While banning bots may help to some extent, Sng said that policies alone may not be effective. —

Sydney Goh, CNBC, 27 June 2026 Those policies are supported by Newsom. —

Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 27 June 2026 During the first half of his temporary term as interim county executive, LeVota introduced a pair of tax policies intended to create retroactive, artificial 15% caps on the valuation increases of residential properties in the 2023 cycle, and commercial properties in the 2025 cycle. —

Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2026 Nationally, many facilities of that time have since been demolished as housing policies evolved, but New Britain’s housing authority kept the roughly 250-unit Mount Pleasant and now operates it as its oldest property. —

Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 26 June 2026 While Chicago, Calumet City and other Illinois municipalities passed laws years ago, recent immigration enforcement has revamped discussion and some controversy around these policies in Naperville, Elgin, La Grange and Skokie. —

Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026 Lundy recalled stories of past generations of Black women who raised the children of white families that upheld Jim Crow policies that underfunded schools, restricted voting and enabled political violence against Black communities. —

ABC News, 26 June 2026 The cost of climate policies since 2006 has exceeded $16 trillion globally. —

Bjorn Lomborg, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2026 Over time, that imbalance shows up everywhere, from boardrooms to executive teams to the policies and products organizations put into the world. —

Kendra Davenport, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for policies

procedures

Noun

In Taiwan, the university where a prospective student was caught cheating is now reviewing rules and standard operating procedures for AI eyewears during examinations.

— John Liu, CNN Money, 27 June 2026
The deal, the fruit of months of negotiations, takes aim at the lucrative way doctors can charge for procedures on patients referred to them by personal injury lawyers.

— Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026