Example Sentences

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“Nobody is enacting these taxes because they don’t like rich people,” he adds.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

The E.P.A. also is enacting tougher restrictions on coal plants to reduce pollutants like soot and nitrous oxides, and to force the cleanup of water contamination from coal plants.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2022

Actually, Stones is enacting a performance of his own by trying to contain his flatulence — or at least pass wind discreetly and out of any of these sound specialists' earshot.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2022

There are signs that it is enacting longer term costs, making some companies re-think their positions in the Chinese market.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2022

The foregoing is irrefutable evidence that the fool-killer is enacting the role of cunctator.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper