mandate
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Leano said the mayor also can’t unilaterally mandate people receiving city-funded housing assistance enter treatment.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
The swift decision caps a three-week trial that saw a parade of tech titans take the stand, with Musk arguing that OpenAI's pivot to a profit-driven business betrayed its original nonprofit mandate.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
There are regulatory rules that mandate investment banks not show favoritism to clients, but there is also a lot of leeway.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
“You can’t legislate that, you can’t mandate it, but I think if you ask people, ‘Could we be better?’—I think you won’t get a better result unless you make the ask.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
I mainly took this as a mandate to overperform, to do everything I possibly could to keep up with or even plow past the more privileged people around me.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Vocabulary lists containing mandate
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