dictate
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Dictate how many pitchers can be on a roster?
From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2021
Think of Siri on the iPhone or the Dragon Dictate software that I'm using to "write" this piece.
From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2012
Dictate any form of repentance you like ... my signature is yours.
From Waste A Tragedy, In Four Acts by Granville-Barker, Harley
For Justice, that is to say, Performance of Covenant, and giving to every man his own, is a Dictate of the Law of Nature.
From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas
A dozen Representatives took their pens and sat down, some around a table, others with a sheet of paper on their knees, and called out to me,— "Dictate the Proclamation to us."
From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Hugo, Victor
Vocabulary lists containing dictate
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 3
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You Can Say That Again: Dic and Dict
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The New SAT: The Language of the Test
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