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as in demands
to ask for (something) earnestly or with authority
police enjoined the community's full cooperation in getting rid of the drug dealers
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as in instructs
to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority
undeterred, the captain enjoined his crew to sail at full speed into the mine-filled harbor
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as in forbids
to order not to do or use or to be done or used
Quakerism enjoins the taking of human life
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Democracy demands resistance to policies that devalue life.—
Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2026
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Host Alan Cumming demands the Traitors pull off a murder in plain sight on their second night, and there’s a roundtable in the middle of the day to vote someone out.—
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If a page instructs you to run code to fix a problem, close it immediately.—
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The order instructs Education Secretary Linda McMahon, former head of the Small Business Administration and co-founder of the World Wrestling Entertainment, to shrink the $100 billion department, which cannot be dissolved without Congressional approval.—
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Office of Management and Budget policy prohibits executive branch officials from commenting on such releases early and in fact forbids public statements until 30 minutes after the release.—
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That amendment explicitly forbids any redistricting plan being drawn to help or harm one political party’s electoral odds.—
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The best storytelling requires revision.—
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Then lawmakers passed a law that requires legislative approval for such an action.—
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Rose tells Shaw that her community is concerned about sacred remains being disturbed.—
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In this intimate portrait of life during the exhilarating early days of the women’s liberation movement in Scandinavia in the 1970s, Pernille Ipsen tells the stories of the seven women who raised her, who were all part of the women’s movement in Denmark.—
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West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey is preparing for his team of lawyers to make their argument in front of the top court, a case defending the state's Save Women's Sports Act, which prohibits those who were assigned male at birth from playing on competitive female sports teams.—
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British law currently prohibits distribution of deepfake imagery depicting adults.—
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What better way to welcome the weekend than with the smell and sound of a frying ijeh, asks Sami Tamimi.—
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Space exploration asks us to think beyond ourselves.—
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With his gun pointed at McNealy, Heisler orders him to show his hands and not reach for anything.—
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The agent then orders Parias to turn off his vehicle.—
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“Enjoins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enjoins. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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