legislate
verb (used without object)
to exercise the function of legislation; make or enact laws.
are legislating
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present progressiveof legislate.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Few other places are legislating affirmative consent laws, according to Ms White.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2022
But increasingly, states are legislating away that carefree cruise, passing laws that restrict when, how and with whom teenagers can get behind the wheel.
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2012
Cities are legislating against cell phones and smoking.
From Time Magazine Archive
On a self-financed week-end junket "to inspect the different things in New York we Legislators are legislating about," 100 Congressmen & wives trooped into the visitors' gallery, eyed the brokers' antics with astonishment.
From Time Magazine Archive
He says: "We must remember that we are legislating for the Metropolis of India, and therefore we should borrow our institutions from large English towns, and not from parochial institutions."
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
