codify

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This weekend’s Super Bowl will codify the shift.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

Some elements of the new law will simplify and codify existing best practices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

But again, these chapters codify the Black American experience as one defined by pain and primarily linked to chattel slavery.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2025

The band made its debut that year, and opened for the Sex Pistols at 100 Club, a notorious London venue that helped codify the scene.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

He had tried to codify the evil uses of might by individuals, so that he might set bounds to them by the impersonal justice of the state.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White