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verb

past tense of enforce

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Recent Examples of enforced
Verb
All clubs were required to submit their accounts for the previous season by December 31 so any potential breach could be quickly assessed, a sanction enforced and an appeals process also carried out before the end of that particular season to protect the integrity of the competition. Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025 Congestion pricing will still be enforced. Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025 While companies like Amazon and Boeing have enforced stricter return-to-office mandates in recent months, others, including Spotify and Allstate, continue to champion flexible work policies, arguing that offering employees autonomy is essential for future workplace success. Morgan Smith, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025 Our rules matter, and they will be enforced. Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025 Microsoft has a much harder time requiring Secure Boot to be enforced on specialized devices, such as scientific instruments used inside research labs. Ars Technica, 7 Jan. 2025 The second major part of the act grants state attorneys general the ability to sue the Secretary of Homeland Security if those migrants are not detained, which the bill's sponsors argue will ensure the first measure is enforced. Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025 Once your eye alights on specific motifs, further refusal is enforced by not being able to take in an entire work at once because of its expansiveness. Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025 To address this, organizations have enforced complexity requirements and periodic resets. Mike Wilson, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enforced
Adjective
  • The Castaic Sports Complex, also under a mandatory evacuation order, is being used as a fire command post.
    Tom Tapp, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Some commentators have suggested that there will be large scale mass deportation efforts, mandatory detentions and even the possibility of a hotline to report on undocumented immigrants.
    London School of Economics, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The lessons the company learned from that 20-year project will be applied to future Zero products, including the two the company showed off at CES this week.
    Abigail Bassett, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2025
  • However, the tariff lens should not be applied to China in a vacuum, as even Mexico and Canada were hit with similar tariff threats.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • These journalistic impulses appear compulsory and hastily satisfied; the earlier, eventless reality TV sheen seems a haven of human insight by comparison.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
  • They are rooted in decisions made a century ago, when southern leaders—even before India’s independence—began passing progressive reforms including compulsory education for both sexes, women’s right to vote and hold office, and affirmative action for members of historically disadvantaged castes.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Against United, Adams understood his assignment and executed it very well.
    Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Five people were executed during the presidential transition period in 2021, breaking precedent for halting executions before the transfer of power between different administrations.
    Sophie Clark, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024

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“Enforced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enforced. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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