ENFORCED Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in demanded

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verb

past tense of enforce

as in implemented

to carry out effectively the duty of the police is to enforce the law

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The judge found that the rules gave city officials excessive discretion to decide which remarks were permissible and that they had been enforced inconsistently. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026 SpaceX agreed to testify earlier this week after the council threatened to have its subpoena enforced by a judge. — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026 The rule wasn’t strictly enforced, of course, but her parents were trying to manage a household where one upset child could set off several others. — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2026 Construction standards in the country are often poorly enforced, and many structures are built with substandard materials. — Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026 Batie-Smoose alleges the university used the accusations as a pretext and enforced its rules differently against her than against Kress. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026 The permit was pulled by a developer and enforced by the Department of Transportation & Infrastructure. — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2026 The decline has accelerated sharply in recent weeks, since the United States ratcheted up sanctions and enforced a naval blockade. — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026 Examples under laws enforced by the Labor Commissioner include filing certain wage complaints, exercising rights under the Labor Code and raising some workplace health or safety concerns. — William Jones, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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However, other than spot-testing, the FDA is still assessing how to standardize testing methods for identifying asbestos—a fact that set social media aflame in 2025 when consumers criticized the department for allegedly ending mandatory testing.

— Tracy Middleton, Allure, 19 Oct. 2026
From 2001 to 2010, as Denmark introduced nationwide resuscitation initiatives including mandatory school CPR education, bystander CPR rates more than doubled, while 30-day survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest more than tripled.

— Meng Yang, Time, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of mandatory

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The state implemented the Universal Preschool Program in 2023 which provides up to 15 hours per week of funded pre-k for Colorado children.

— Chierstin Roth, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
If implemented effectively, this could help operators make decisions using a more unified picture of their surroundings.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of implemented

Adjective

Although the regime has retreated from enforcing compulsory veiling, the opposition movement has continued to radicalize.

— Mansoor Moaddel, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026
Reczek and Bosley-Smith read the return partly as evidence of compulsory kinship’s durability, and the evidence supports them.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of compulsory

Verb

Fundora found room for uppercuts inside and applied pressure through the middle rounds before delivering the decisive left in the final second.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
It must now be applied to those making products that could shape the future of humanity itself.

— Giorgos Tsetis, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of applied

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Instead of flying the drone remotely with individual controls, the F-22 pilot sent high-level tactical instructions that the drone’s onboard autonomy software interpreted and executed.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
There's no one character who came up with the idea and executed it … the existence of AI today comes down to many papers, many individual discoveries, and a whole lot of obsession.

— Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026

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