as in edict
a statement of what to do that must be obeyed by those concerned
I only made the change at the author's behest
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Recent Examples of behest
The same goes for Lucy learning that her father basically helped kill her mother and destroyed an entire innocent community at Vault-Tec’s behest.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025
Major companies including Amazon, JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Dell have all imposed stricter in-person policies in 2025, much to the behest of their workers.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2025
Yeong-in is a legendary public defender who took on Mo Eun’s case at the behest of his wife, celebrated cellist Choi Su-yeon.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 5 Dec. 2025
At Petro's behest, Kovalik recently traveled to Colombia to meet with Carranza Medina's family, and has now filed this complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which investigates complaints in South and North America.
—Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for behest
Noun
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Trump’s edict was light on details — and the shares pared those losses in later trading — but the message was sent.—
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The Gospel of Matthew, McGowan said, recounts how King Herod – upon learning that a child born in Bethlehem was destined to one day take his throne – issued an edict for all male children in the city to be executed.—
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The young Malinin skated by himself, uninterested in instruction.—
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Careful use of pesticides, following all label instructions.—
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The company was also working with Transport for London on a double-decker electric bus, but the agency has yet to place an order.—
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Cureate does not warehouse or distribute food products, the company buys purchases the food order and the farmer delivers it to the customer, Bryden said.—
Noun
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At a moment of increasing niche-ification of the news media business, Axel Springer is running in the opposite direction.—
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Automation can go in either of these directions; that’s why the task of the left is to create social and cultural conditions in which the benign and constructive aspects of technology and automation are primary.—
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The letter details other claims of favoritism and disregard for recent board directives to curb spending, like attempting to hire for vacant positions and authorizing overtime expenditures despite the hiring and overtime freeze enacted in the board approved fiscal solvency plan.—
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The Licensed Child Care Association of Oklahoma filed a suit against DHS, seeking a temporary restraining order against the directive.—
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In addition to their request for an injunction, both states on Monday sought to consolidate their lawsuit with the case brought by Revolution Wind’s developers.—
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Homeowners say they were not informed Deputies were called to the area as a coalition of 140 homeowners secured an injunction to stop construction on their side streets.—
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“Behest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/behest. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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