codify
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A code is a collection of laws arranged in an orderly way; famous examples include the Code of Hammurabi, from about 1760 B.C. in ancient Babylon, and the Napoleonic Code, produced at Napoleon's orders in 1804. Laws that have been included in a code have been codified. The rules of baseball differed greatly from one place to another until they were codified by Alexander Cartwright in 1845; they haven't changed much since, though we don't know what Cartwright would say about the designated hitter.
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Jazmine Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
The motion presented last year by the three council members and seconded by Councilmembers Curren Price and Heather Hutt would codify Garcetti’s executive directive into law.
—Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2024
Legislators have pushed to codify the ban under state law, but that effort fell short in the last state legislative session.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024
There is hope in the future that these issues can be codified through a payments bot that can be used as a knowledge dissemination engine.
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—Balmukund Shukla, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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“Codify.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/codify. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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