enacting

ADJECTIVE

legislative

Synonyms

STRONGEST

congressional parliamentary senatorial

WEAK

decreeing jurisdictive lawgiving legislational legislatorial nomistic nomothetic ordaining parliamentarian statute-making synodical

NOUN

acting

Synonyms

STRONG

assuming characterization depiction dramatics dramatizing enactment feigning hamming histrionics imitating imitation impersonation improvisation mime mimicry pantomime performance playing portrayal portraying posing posturing pretending pretense putting rendition seeming simulating stagecraft stooging theatre theatricals

WEAK

play acting showing off

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Enacting change at the federal level has been a grueling process.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

Enacting the ban in Providence, he says, was easy: the city already prohibits the building of prisons, incinerators and slaughterhouses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Enacting legislative change was disrupted by the collapse of Stormont between 2022 to 2024.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2025

Enacting such a law was temporarily shelved after mass protests against the government in 2003.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2022

Their legislative frenzy they repent, Enacting it should make no precedent.

From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir

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