enacted; enacting; enacts
1
: to establish by legal and authoritative act
specifically
: to make into law
enact a bill
2
: act out
enact a role
Examples of enact in a Sentence
Congress will enact legislation related to that issue.
The law was finally enacted today.
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Also Thursday, the Xinjiang government enacted stricter rules governing religious expression, part of a campaign to Sinicize places and forms of worship of the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs.
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Simina Mistreanu, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2024
Chino Valley Unified School District, the first district to enact such a policy, has already spent more than half a million dollars in legal expenses defending that policy in court, Ward said.
—Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 11 June 2024
To start, Congress enacted the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022.
—Derek T. Muller, The Conversation, 10 June 2024
Last week, in the harshest policy enacted by a Democratic president, Mr. Biden invoked his executive authority to ban most migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border from asylum.
—Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 10 June 2024
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Simina Mistreanu, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2024
Chino Valley Unified School District, the first district to enact such a policy, has already spent more than half a million dollars in legal expenses defending that policy in court, Ward said.
—Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 11 June 2024
To start, Congress enacted the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022.
—Derek T. Muller, The Conversation, 10 June 2024
Last week, in the harshest policy enacted by a Democratic president, Mr. Biden invoked his executive authority to ban most migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border from asylum.
—Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 10 June 2024
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“Enact.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enact. Accessed 17 Jun. 2024.
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enact
transitive verb
en·act
i-ˈnakt 
: to establish by legal and authoritative act : make into law
enact a bill
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