Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

laws

  • plural
    of law.
    law
    noun
    the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

High-stakes conflicts over artificial intelligence, data privacy, workplace culture, antitrust laws and other issues are dominating the news and defining our modern era.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Puerto’s suit tells an equally powerful story about laws like H.B.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Astronomers have long suspected that black holes operate according to the same underlying physical laws regardless of their mass.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

This would need legislation to be brought forward, given that current laws do not cover the effect of a merger on streaming or on-demand programmes.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

In the decades that followed, Colored people strove to educate themselves— organizing, creating self-help groups, running for office, fighting to change laws, founding schools, and so on.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson