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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of codify.

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Examples

  • Richards says the order only "codifies" what's already in the bill.

    InForum Blog by Sheila Liaugminas Sheila 2010

  • There is no formal body in recruiting that "codifies" the established practices.

    ERE.net 2009

  • There is no formal body in recruiting that "codifies" the established practices.

    ERE.net 2009

  • There is no formal body in recruiting that "codifies" the established practices.

    ERE.net 2009

  • The Citizenship Clause actually codifies the Lockean view of government articulated in the Declaration of Independence, namely, that legitimate government is grounded in the consent of the governed.

    The 14th Amendment and Children of Illegal Migrants 2011

  • The legislation's supporters in Congress say it simply codifies existing practice, such as the indefinite detention of alleged terrorists at Guantánamo Bay.

    Americans face Guantánamo detention after Obama backdown 2011

  • And why the equivalent urgency to reject all religion and with it the profoundly human impulses that it codifies, blaming every human ill upon it (although, in fairness, organized religion seems to be rather too much of this world, replacing actual religious experience with systems of command and control)?

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • When a racial group codifies antisocial behavior as part of their society, and then demand other groups accept antisocial behavior as part of “who they are” then they are perpetuating their own demise.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar 2010

  • I think on the one hand Leigh's talking most immediately about the issues developers have with criticism of games, which seems to stem from the use of metacritic as a basis for determining where money in the games industry goes, which unfortunately codifies antagonism between game critics and game creators, who both love games.

    Tape Song SVGL 2009

  • LOST codifies very important economic rights of coastal states, while also freezing in place navigational rights essential to maritime states.

    Law of the Sea Treaty Is Good for U.S. 2011

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