as in decree
an order publicly issued by an authority
the school principal issued a fiat that caps were not to be worn inside the school, and that was that
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Recent Examples of fiat
Governing by fiat also contributes to an increasingly expansive view of executive powers.
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Nolan Finley, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
Bitcoin challenges fiat currency's role as a store of value and investment vehicle, while Monero contests the state's ability to monitor and control financial transactions.
—Boaz Sobrado, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
Back in the days when the national champion was determined by fiat—Penn State got absolutely hosed in 1995—relatively little attention was paid to college football’s TV deliveries.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 9 Jan. 2025
Events in the Montana House closely mirror those that have recently unfolded in the U.S. House, where Speaker Mike Johnson has implemented a trans bathroom ban by fiat and legislators voted to advance a federal ban on trans women in women’s sports on Tuesday.
—Samantha Riedel, Them, 16 Jan. 2025
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Nolan Finley, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
Bitcoin challenges fiat currency's role as a store of value and investment vehicle, while Monero contests the state's ability to monitor and control financial transactions.
—Boaz Sobrado, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
Back in the days when the national champion was determined by fiat—Penn State got absolutely hosed in 1995—relatively little attention was paid to college football’s TV deliveries.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 9 Jan. 2025
Events in the Montana House closely mirror those that have recently unfolded in the U.S. House, where Speaker Mike Johnson has implemented a trans bathroom ban by fiat and legislators voted to advance a federal ban on trans women in women’s sports on Tuesday.
—Samantha Riedel, Them, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiat
Noun
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Very little of what Musk says, what the government has said in court cases challenging many of his decrees, and what federal agencies have actually done overlap.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
26 Feb. 2025
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Last October, one of Khamenei’s senior advisers asserted that if Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear sites, the supreme leader might reconsider his earlier decrees outlawing the development and use of weapons of mass destruction.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Despite event cancellations and temporary closures at other presidential centers, the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin remains unaffected by edicts from Washington, a top official tells Axios.—
Asher Price,
Axios,
25 Feb. 2025
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The historical irony of an order, essentially a government edict, striking so hard at one of the nation’s 35 accredited TCUs, or Tribal Colleges & Universities, does not escape him.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Efforts to chip away at the ruling are also taking place legislatively.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
22 Feb. 2025
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Two years after the deportation ruling, Colmenares was back on DHS' radar after a weapons charge in the Chicago area last October.—
Matt Finn,
Fox News,
22 Feb. 2025
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In many cases, this directive style warped into micromanagement, where leaders who may have been ill-equipped to transition to the fully remote and hybrid-work conditions tried to compensate through excessive control, surveillance, and monitoring.—
Melissa A. Wheeler,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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But as part of Trump's crackdown on undocumented immigrants, on the first day of his second term, DHS rescinded a directive that limited federal agents' ability to conduct enforcement actions in sensitive locations such as churches, schools and hospitals.—
Abraham Gutman The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS),
arkansasonline.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Fiat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiat. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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