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  • as inenforced
  • as inhard-and-fast
  • as inmandated
  • as inwritten

synonyms for dictated

  • imposed
  • prescribed
  • required
  • sanctioned
  • advocated
  • charged
  • compelled
  • constrained
  • demanded
  • enjoined
  • established
  • exacted
  • executed
  • invoked
  • kept
  • ordained
  • pressed
  • carried out
  • forced upon
  • prevalent
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On this page you'll find 57 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dictated, such as: imposed, prescribed, required, sanctioned, advocated, and charged.
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How to use dictated in a sentence

In the long run, this might end up being more feasible for the IOC than clinging to some maximalist and—let’s face it—illusory dictate of total neutrality.
THE INHERENT DILEMMA OF OLYMPIC PROTEST RULESMARTIN FRITZ HUBERDECEMBER 14, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINE
David Arden, as he promised, had dictated to him in outline the awful case he had massed against his client.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
If we could find the one witness, the one who was present when the old man dictated his will at the last!
THE CAMPFIRE GIRLS OF ROSELAWNMARGARET PENROSE
High reasons of State may be presumed to have dictated the Government policy.
FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOW
According to Moréri there were in his day seventy systems of chronology founded on the history dictated by God himself.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)
How, indeed, can it be believed that God dictated false dates?
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)
Self-interest and self-preservation dictated many laws which secured the welfare of society.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORD
St. Ives is now in the 5th chapter copying; in the 14th chapter of the dictated draft.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - SWANSTON EDITION VOL. 25 (OF 25)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Business prudence dictated the routings from here on, and the route led to winter quarters.
DAVID LANNARCK, MIDGETGEORGE S. HARNEY
So Madame d'Infreville dictated the following in a strangely altered voice, pausing now and then, so great was her emotion.
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS: ENVY AND INDOLENCEEUGNE SUE
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WORDS RELATED TO DICTATED

  • advocated
  • carried out
  • charged
  • compelled
  • constrained
  • demanded
  • dictated
  • enjoined
  • established
  • exacted
  • executed
  • forced upon
  • imposed
  • invoked
  • kept
  • ordained
  • prescribed
  • pressed
  • prevalent
  • required
  • sanctioned
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.