blue laws

noun

plural of blue law
as in ground rules

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  1. ground rules
  2. statutes
  3. laws
  4. ordinances
  5. acts
  6. commandments
  7. enactments
  8. dictates
Noun
  • Representatives of Bonta and Paramount Skydance came together late last week to set ground rules for Monday’s meeting, which was to involve Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Resident Nancy Clifton-Hawkins was an amazing moderator who quickly laid out the goals and ground rules.
    — Terri Daxon, Oc Register, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of ground rules
Noun
  • Obeying God’s statutes in our own lives helps open the way for others to do the same.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The Justices’ daily business involves resolving ambiguities, clarifying jurisdiction, harmonizing conflicting statutes, and adjudicating conflicts in special jurisdictions.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of statutes
Noun
  • The letter alleged the Smithsonian ​may have violated anti-discrimination laws.
    — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The franchise legally resides in Utah, which has one of the lowest minimum wage laws in the country.
    — Sam Blum, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of laws
Noun
  • Additionally, the law prohibits the state from overriding local ordinances limiting, prohibiting or otherwise regulating data centers.
    — Des Moines Register, States Newsroom, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Local officials said the company hasn't violated any county noise ordinances though, the outlet reported.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of ordinances
Noun
  • These belated acts of institutional integration are part of a necessary and long overdue revision of West German art history’s mechanisms of exclusion.
    — Elisa R. Linn, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Its most prominent acts include Junior H, Fuerza Regida and Peso Pluma.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of acts
Noun
  • Wilde’s nine buttercream commandments show home bakers how to create visually striking, deeply personal cakes.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
  • After the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, interpreters understood Temple service broadly in terms of study, prayer, and upholding the commandments.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
Definition of commandments
Noun
  • Through her film that moves fluidly between re-enactments and verite documentary styles, Duong crafts an emotionally-wrenching story of family division that leads to peace and healing for a father who left behind siblings in Vietnam.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Featuring interviews from a wide range of people across the ideological spectrum, as well as top-tier acting talent for historical re-enactments, this is a prestige series that's worth checking out.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 19 June 2026
Definition of enactments
Noun
  • The individual sensibilities of people who directed them were subordinated to dictates of the franchise.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
  • But rather than riding on the top of the mikoshi, or portable Shinto shrine, as tradition dictates, the heavily pregnant Kawata walked behind it.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 20 July 2026
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