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verb

past tense of enforce

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Recent Examples of enforced
Verb
As for how compliance is enforced, hospitals are typically given warnings instead of fines. Jade Gomez, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024 Please consider supporting our work to make sure that period product access legislation is enforced in all 29 states, and gets written, passed and enforced correctly in the 21 others. Suzanne Herman, refinery29.com, 2 Oct. 2024 Or are they governed by strict and broadly enforced noninterference rules that benefit the winner and exclude anyone else? Thomas Zurbuchen, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024 Israel says those and other provisions were never enforced. Aamer Madhani, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024 Depending on how the currently vague noninterference rules are interpreted and enforced by the Chinese (and others), significant parts of the moon might end up off-limits for anyone else to explore or mine. Thomas Zurbuchen, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024 Such legislation should also explicitly repeal or sunset the rules and regulations once enforced by these agencies, ensuring that their regulatory influence and legal effect vanishes alongside. Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024 Dell’s return-to-office (RTO) mandates have reportedly been enforced with VPN and badge tracking. Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024 Speaking of booze, drinking alcohol in a gondola is another across-the-board no-no at North American resorts, even if it’s rarely enforced. Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 24 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enforced
Adjective
  • The District 16 race margin is within the threshold for a mandatory recount, while the District 19 margin is just outside the threshold.
    Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Dismayed by tedious, mandatory and frequently counterproductive diversity, equity and inclusion seminars that treat white skin as almost inherently problematic?
    Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • In the future, researchers believe similar dating methodologies could one day be applied to not just other meteorites, but planets.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
  • When applied to each state’s eight individual grades used in my scorecard, this geeky math shows California’s grades had the highest deviation.
    Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 14 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • There should be a compulsory living wage for sustainable farming roles and more work to reduce pesticide and fertiliser use.
    Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Taiwan has responded by moving to shore up its defense, including by marginally raising its military budget, extending compulsory service from four months to one year and developing new indigenous weapons platforms, such as attack submarines.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Especially when executed at a large scale of hundreds of code changes, this becomes a management challenge.
    Mike Waas, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Texas nearly executed Roberson in 2016, but the process was halted days before by the state's highest criminal court, which allowed a lower court to conduct an evidentiary hearing.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024

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“Enforced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enforced. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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