Example Sentences

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The government is legislating to give the Financial Conduct Authority oversight of access to cash.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2022

“It,” in this case, is legislating, a clumsy and awkward process.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2021

“Legislating peeing is legislating being,” I’d say, as I spoke to countless strangers about the realities of life as a trans person, contrasting the predatory, immoral and perverse portrait that others may paint.

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2016

The first, for presidential offenses that do not rise to the level of impeachment, is legislating.

From Washington Post

In fact, when that House is legislating you can't tell it from artillery practice.

From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Twain, Mark