enacted; enacting; enacts
1
: to establish by legal and authoritative act
specifically
: to make into law
enact a bill
2
: act out
enact a role
Examples of enact in a Sentence
Congress will enact legislation related to that issue.
The law was finally enacted today.
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Congress enacted these subsidies during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure people had health insurance.
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Calmatters, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Some updates are needed Much has changed in the decades since Congress wrote the law, but Congress has not enacted updates to keep up.
—Anna Kirkland, The Conversation, 15 Aug. 2025
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act enacted last month jeopardizes the financial stability of the city in the coming years, state officials and budget experts say.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Some 24 states across the United States, including Tennessee, have enacted a form of age-verification laws for certain websites, requiring that users provide a form of identification, like a state ID or a facial scan, to access websites that have 33% or more adult content.
—Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 14 Aug. 2025
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Calmatters, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Some updates are needed Much has changed in the decades since Congress wrote the law, but Congress has not enacted updates to keep up.
—Anna Kirkland, The Conversation, 15 Aug. 2025
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act enacted last month jeopardizes the financial stability of the city in the coming years, state officials and budget experts say.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Some 24 states across the United States, including Tennessee, have enacted a form of age-verification laws for certain websites, requiring that users provide a form of identification, like a state ID or a facial scan, to access websites that have 33% or more adult content.
—Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Enact.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enact. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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enact
transitive verb
en·act
i-ˈnakt 
: to establish by legal and authoritative act : make into law
enact a bill
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