enactment
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These actions undermined the slaveholders’ power, destabilized systems of slavery and, in some cases, hastened the enactment of emancipatory laws.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
All legislation should require that any challenge must be commenced within, say, 30 days of the law’s enactment.
From Slate • Dec. 29, 2025
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
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