enactment

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Since the new law’s enactment, the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum, a Ugandan advocacy group, has documented more than 1,200 cases of blackmail and harassment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

And this was the best he could find: “Two cherry-picked newspaper references almost 20 years apart, and at least 30 years before the enactment of the FTCA.”

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026

I recall the intense inner excitement aroused in my heart by Alla Nazimova’s enactment of Mrs. Alving in a performance of Ibsen’s “Ghosts” in the 1930s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

The law calls for Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all Epstein-related documents held by the Justice Department within 30 days of its Nov. 19 enactment.

From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025

The next play we did for assembly was an enactment, totally adapted by Mrs. Finley, I believe, of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers