codify

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The Senate recently added legislation to its housing bill to codify the ban.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

She also spoke of working “with Congress to codify these reforms,” an acknowledgment that the Department of Education was created by an act of Congress.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

Voters in seven states last fall voted to codify a right to abortion in their state constitutions via ballot initiatives.

From Salon • Aug. 25, 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