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enactment

[en-akt-muhnt] / ɛnˈækt mənt /




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Since the law’s enactment, Congress has provided funding for the national program.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

The bill’s imminent enactment comes as housing affordability is front and center for many Americans.

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 2026

“They’re not taking into account all the legislative history and statements made at the time of the enactment of Dodd-Frank.”

From Barron's Apr. 15, 2026

“Next, looking to the record, we find virtually no evidence that race predominated in the voters’ enactment of the Proposition 50 Map.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 14, 2026

The next play we did for assembly was an enactment, totally adapted by Mrs. Finley, I believe, of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

Originalism looks only to the past meaning of the Constitution at the time of the founding or at subsequent enactments.

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

They include historic documentary scenes, modern enactments, cartoons and graphics.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2025

In general, that anxiety shows up in the defenses against it through a wide variety of hypermasculine poses, declarations and enactments.

From Salon Oct. 17, 2024

Such stories and dramatic enactments can bring shared attention to these kinds of challenges, and we know that shared attention is one mechanism that can help people cooperate and solve coordination dilemmas.

From Scientific American Oct. 20, 2023

The advancing requirements of public health are clearly traceable in the series of enactments directed to that end.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various




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