codify
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Some elements of the new law will simplify and codify existing best practices.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025
She also spoke of working “with Congress to codify these reforms,” an acknowledgment that the Department of Education was created by an act of Congress.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025
Senate Bill 29 modernized the Texas Business Organizations Code to codify the business-judgment rule, which rightly empowers directors and officers to make the business decisions they need to innovate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
Voters in seven states last fall voted to codify a right to abortion in their state constitutions via ballot initiatives.
From Salon • Aug. 25, 2025
He had tried to codify the evil uses of might by individuals, so that he might set bounds to them by the impersonal justice of the state.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.