codified

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He said doing so was likely illegal even if the City Council agreed to it, because of “housing first” policies codified in state law.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Congress codified this principle in the Share IT Act, which President Biden signed in December 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

“There is a method to how these decisions historically have been made — a method scientific in nature and codified into law through procedural requirements,” Murphy wrote.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026

These are the athlete expression guidelines, external, determined in 2023 and which have been codified into Olympic law.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

She began to slip them one by one through her fingers, exactly as her father had done, and her grandfather, and her great-grandfather, performing a family legacy of precise, codified, thorough worrying.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides