dictates

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“A simple rule dictates my buying,” he wrote in his annual shareholders letter in the winter of 2009.

From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026

She believes that if all the signs point to a partner-less destiny anyway, then she may as well flout the dictates of her mother and the marriage mart.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2026

For this reason, investors should reconsider the traditional portfolio that dictates a portfolio balance of 60% stocks and 40% bonds, after they have been leaning heavily into equities for years.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 13, 2026

After taking the moment in, the pair headed to the clubhouse bar and, as tradition dictates, bought drinks for fellow golfers.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Pacific Northwest Indian artists carved beautiful masks, boxes, bas-reliefs, and totem poles within the dictates of an elaborate aesthetic system based on an ovoid shape that has no name in European languages.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann