by fiat
Example Sentences
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Min Aung Hlaing ruled by fiat as military chief over four years of emergency rule after the coup.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
"The result is a financial death penalty by fiat imposed on a media defendant whose broadcasts reach millions," he told the Supreme Court in the appeal.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025
But the commissioner completely misread the room when he tried to push through changes to country’s oldest tournament by fiat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
It would have been a perfectly existentialist spectacle — restless hordes, in the face of a vast nothingness, creating meaning by fiat, through an absurd, defiant, repetitive, arbitrary ritual.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
Finally, Compton settled the argument by fiat: the pile would move to Chicago.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
