dictated
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This is often because studios themselves dictated the stories and angles being written about.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Whether or not you do a Roth conversion in your 80s will also be dictated by your deductions and advice from the aforementioned CFP on what taxes you will pay during your “conversion window.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Serpa attributes the strict rules to the “ghosts of our Puritanical past,” referencing centuries-old laws that dictated how to conduct public and private life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
If no one claims the prize by next Thursday, the money will go to public schools in California as dictated by the statute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The “Statement,” a seventy-eight-page document which he had dictated to the Finney County court stenographer, recounted admissions already made to Alvin Dewey and Clarence Duntz.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
