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  • All stores and businesses must close, was the edict.  (source)
  • The heat helps enforce the edict.  (source)
  • Chuck hadn't given us any serious trouble in a couple years—someone in cool kid land laid down the edict that we were to be left alone.  (source)
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  • I had been handed an edict worse than a thousand advertisements for pasta makers.  (source)
    edict = order
  • Mobutu's edicts are that far-reaching.  (source)
    edicts = orders
  • The latest heartache for Dutchmen was an edict making it a crime to sing the "Wilhelmus," our national anthem.  (source)
    edict = order
  • They made some recommendations, and edicts went out that families must start eating together again.  (source)
    edicts = orders
  • My legs were still shaky from the walk and, before deciding whether to fight the edict or leave, I asked for a cup of tea.  (source)
    edict = order
  • She knew nothing of Matron's quotas and edicts for Missing dogs.†  (source)
  • Where is the staircase, from which Charles VI promulgated his edict of pardon?  (source)
  • An air of academic clutter hung over the room, along with the fruited scent of Rousseau's pipe tobacco, a habit he indulged in violation of numerous official edicts regarding smoking in government offices.†  (source)
  • You understand, Treville—an edict is still an edict, it is forbidden to fight, after all.  (source)
  • I soaked away a year of cinders and grime and Mum Olga's orders and Hattie's edicts and Olive's demands.†  (source)
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