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dic·tat·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. determined, dictated, setadjective

    determined or decided upon as by an authority

    "date and place are already determined"; "the dictated terms of surrender"; "the time set for the launching"

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  1. dictated

    Dictated is a term usually used to describe a situation where something is being determined, influenced, or controlled by a particular factor or authority. It can also refer to the act of speaking words aloud to be written down or recorded by someone else.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dictated

    of Dictate

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dictated in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dictated in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of dictated in a Sentence

  1. Asher DeMetz:

    The city of Baltimore should have been prepared with a recovery strategy and been able to recover within much much less time. That time would be dictated by a risk assessment guiding how long they can afford to be down, they shoud have been ready, especially after the previous attack, to recover from ransomware.

  2. Mary McCarthy:

    In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

  3. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park:

    Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

  4. Richard K. Morgan:

    Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force dictated by an élite, enforced by thugs, uniformed or not, and upheld by a willful ignorance and stupidity on the part of the very majority whom the system oppresses.

  5. The Gulf source:

    Saudi Arabia favours a gradual approach to increase output to compensate for any unplanned outages. The decision about the timing and amount of oil to raise will be decided when the ministers meet in June, the increase in output will be dictated by market conditions and all the numbers circulated about size of the increase or the timing are mere speculation.

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