Example Sentences

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The 19-country area that uses the euro currency saw inflation reach a record 9.9% last month, and the European Central Bank has been enacting big rate hikes to combat it, with another expected next week.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2022

For half a century, Danish architect and writer Jan Gehl has been enacting a revolution in people-centred urban design.

From Nature • Sep. 27, 2016

All this year, Wall Street has been enacting a financial version of The Perils of Pauline, with the customers playing Pauline.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few goats were browsing over this sleeping crater, which has been enacting the part of Rip Van Winkle for a score or more of centuries.

From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Ballou, Maturin Murray