as in decree
an order publicly issued by an authority
a democratic government has to be something wanted by that nation's citizens and not something created by a foreign power's diktat
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Recent Examples of diktat
Trump issues foreign policy diktats by social media, abjuring international consultation and consensus, but the Biden administration itself announced export controls on technology to China without the agreement of U.S. partners.
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Richard Fontaine, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2025
Interrupting Jewish performers had been a tactic of theirs since the 1920s, and two months earlier, the Stormtroopers’ cultural office had issued a diktat to its members warning them about certain theaters.
—Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
In some respects, a diktat was already announced last summer by reducing remote working to two days per week, with badges checked and email reprimands for employees who fail to toe the line.
—Anna Zanardi Cappon, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
And while the Saltburn star’s petite accessory looks neat in its singular position, trinkets follow the messy-bag diktat decreed by Miuccia Prada for spring 2024.
—Alice Newbold, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2024
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Richard Fontaine, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2025
Interrupting Jewish performers had been a tactic of theirs since the 1920s, and two months earlier, the Stormtroopers’ cultural office had issued a diktat to its members warning them about certain theaters.
—Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
In some respects, a diktat was already announced last summer by reducing remote working to two days per week, with badges checked and email reprimands for employees who fail to toe the line.
—Anna Zanardi Cappon, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
And while the Saltburn star’s petite accessory looks neat in its singular position, trinkets follow the messy-bag diktat decreed by Miuccia Prada for spring 2024.
—Alice Newbold, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diktat
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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The brief cites the Supreme Court decision that gave Trump immunity from criminal prosecution and reflected a muscular view of executive power.—
DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS,
arkansasonline.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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But the unusual decision to grant Musk's team access to millions of Americans' private taxpayer data has been described as potentially dangerous.—
Ewan Palmer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Diktat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diktat. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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