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enshrine

[en-shrahyn] / ɛnˈʃraɪn /


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In response, Hyundai’s union has made unprecedented demands seeking to enshrine job protections in the era of robots and AI.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

The state’s true goal, he asserted, is to enshrine “local attitudes” and “a Hawaiian tradition” that “disfavor the carrying of guns” in public to prevent violence.

From Slate Jun. 25, 2026

Over the years, he helped various communities in some capacity to incorporate and eventually started working to enshrine the liberty cities model into law.

From Salon May 3, 2026

Investigative grand juries cannot return indictments against defendants, but they are often used to enshrine evidence and subpoena witnesses for a future criminal proceeding.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 20, 2026

Working as a lawyer in South Africa meant operating under a debased system of justice, a code of law that did not enshrine equality but its opposite.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The International Court of Justice has been asked to deliver a so-called advisory opinion on whether a treaty drawn up in 1948 by the International Labour Organisation implicitly enshrines the right to strike.

From Barron's May 21, 2026

It enshrines the commitment to uphold the Seven Principles of Public Life, and details "the overarching duty on Ministers to comply with the law and to protect the integrity of public life".

From BBC Sep. 5, 2025

The Home Rule Act enshrines these rights into federal statute.

From Slate Aug. 15, 2025

The human rights declaration, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948, enshrines a standard for human rights and freedoms for all people.

From Seattle Times Dec. 8, 2023

Misled by the fact that language often enshrines old beliefs and customs which have otherwise passed out of memory, they have forgotten that a metaphor is not necessarily a survival, or a survival a metaphor.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

In the not-too-distant past, the Chargers had one of the NFL’s premier tight ends in Antonio Gates, enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame last summer.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

That publication has been a proponent for changing, extending or rejecting the legal definition of genocide enshrined in the 1948 Genocide Convention, formulated by Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

That authority is, oddly enough, not currently enshrined in statute.

From Slate Jul. 13, 2026

The US has granted citizenship to everyone born in the country since 1868, with the right enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, and bolstered by later US Supreme Court rulings.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

He stressed the importance and vitality of the tribal system and traditional leadership, and did not want to reject a system that enshrined those things.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Yousef, whose community strongly promotes gender equality, said she also wants to work on "defending women's rights and enshrining them in the country's constitution".

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

Pope Leo XIV on Monday warned that AI risked enshrining “an anti-human vision,” replacing jobs with dehumanizing work and consuming vast amounts of water and energy.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

In the aftermath of the crime, newly minted fans of Mangione quickly fitted the man with revolutionary trappings, enshrining him as an avenger of working-class power.

From Slate May 1, 2026

Economist Ananish Chaudhuri said the conversation about enshrining the Treaty principles in law was needed "if New Zealand is to remain a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural nation".

From BBC Feb. 5, 2025

A "poem" even to-day is supposed to be a literary composition that is in artificial language arranged in a metrical pattern, often conveying a trite idea or enshrining an ineffective image.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell




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