How to Use fiat in a Sentence

fiat

noun

• He runs the company by fiat.
• This report does not take the form of a fiat but that of a consensus.
  — Steve Brozak, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• And, the trend now is for projects to come by presidential fiat.
  — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 12 Feb. 2020
• But the tax treatment of a coin tied to a basket of fiat currencies is not clear.
  — Timothy Massad, Fortune, 15 July 2019
• The blockchain’s sanctity had been altered by fiat from above.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
• While the British were talking about it year after year, the Germans decided to do it more or less by fiat.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 1 Nov. 2019
• Both have operated from a sense that things begin and end by CEO fiat.
  — Calvin Woodward, ajc, 20 Dec. 2022
• But the world’s second-biggest economy will not heal by Mr Xi’s fiat alone.
  — The Economist, 30 Apr. 2020
• The fact of the matter is that where there has been money there has always been credit and where there is credit there is always some kind of fiat.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
• Those who deposit with fiat currency can get a welcome bonus up to $2,000.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
• Trump’s promotion of himself as a law-and-order president with a miles-wide fiat to rule.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2020
• But since all of these institutions have hampered his ability to rule by fiat, or stand above the rule of law, each of them has quickly come to bear the brunt of his anger.
  — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 31 July 2017
• Clearly, central banks, and their friends in governments, view Bitcoin as a threat to the current fiat system.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• The president has failed to see politics as the art of persuasion and is instead ruling by fiat.
  — Catherine Poisson, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• Bitcoin is a revolt against fiat money**, and an all-meat diet is a revolt against fiat food.
  — Mike Albo and Amanda Duarte, Town & Country, 6 Mar. 2018
• The implication is that what the vanguard struggled to achieve by fiat was going to happen anyway.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• Payments are made in crypto or via PayPal, with plans afoot to integrate a fiat offramp.
  — Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• Public gyms were either closed or prohibited for use by NBA fiat as well.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 3 July 2020
• Second, even in the other 60 percent of the economy, the most important price, that of money, is set by government fiat.
  — Martin Hutchinson, National Review, 31 Aug. 2020
• The pontiff departed from the airport with the window of his blue fiat rolled down, shunning an armored motorcade.
  — Nicole Winfield and Brian Rohan, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• His move to cut subsidies is an effort to hobble the law by executive fiat.
  — Andrew M Harris, Bloomberg.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• The decision to create the current flag, and its design, was carried out by legislative fiat, at a time when many other states were putting their state seals on their flags.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2023
• Medicare rates are set by government fiat, not by provider costs, and in Alaska many doctors won't accept patients at those low rates.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 28 June 2017
• But there are doubts that a government led by Prayuth, used to governing by fiat, can fare well in a parliamentary framework.
  — Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• To be fair, none could be enacted by executive fiat alone.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
• Their solution was the democratic, deliberative process set out in Article V, not the fiat of the Supreme Court.
  — James W. Lucas, National Review, 8 Dec. 2017
• The contemptable weakness of Congress over the past 40 years has added up to a moment where presidents of both parties can rule by fiat and, apparently, caprice.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 19 June 2018
• The addition of new groups or countries would thus take place pursuant to a public law, not secret executive fiat.
  — Elizabeth Goitein, Fortune, 4 June 2018
• Most fiat currencies—that is, those issued by governments—are used primarily to buy such things as food and clothing, rather than to gamble on the rise and fall of exchange rates.
  — Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
• One of the temptations that has to be resisted is the tendency to impose a good standard or law on everyone by legislative or procedural fiat.
  — Nick Dedeke, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024