dictate

Example Sentences

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When called to testify before an oversight board, a police official can deflect accusations of targeting specific racial groups or poorer neighborhoods, claiming that they are merely following the objective dictates of a machine.

From Salon

But form is dictated by a number of factors.

From BBC

In his hand is the boy’s file, inside of which is the letter I dictated to Etta.

From Literature

I was fast learning that our work schedule was dictated solely by the master’s needs, not by ours, and definitely not by any conventions of the outside world.

From Literature

The bill protects individuals without dictating speech or turning platforms into grand arbiters of content.

From The Wall Street Journal