How to Use executive order in a Sentence

executive order

noun
  • Plus, his executive orders that will set racial progress back decades.
    — Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This task must not be left to executive orders.
    — Ayaan Hirsi Ali, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • An executive order both solved his problem and gave him a raft of new ones.
    — Adam Kilgore, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • But the glyphosate executive order has changed things for her and her cohorts.
    — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 14 Mar. 2026
  • My first thought was, this executive order is dead on arrival.
    — John E. Jones Iii, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026
  • And every single court that has looked at this executive order so far has said the same thing and blocked it.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2026
  • An executive order can enshrine these best practices in at least four ways.
    — WIRED, 25 July 2023
  • But a pair of executive orders in recent years have affected the right to vote for many of them.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
  • What did Trump say in his executive order about flag burning?
    — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This is hubris in the age of algorithms and executive orders.
    — Anthony Scaramucci, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The president signed more executive orders in his first year than in his entire first term.
    — Tamara Keith, NPR, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The antifa executive order was the test case.
    — Jason M. Blazakis, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • But executive orders don’t have the clout of official grant rules.
    — Mirae Kim, The Conversation, 15 June 2026
  • In spite of wars, chaos on a summer night and even an executive order, our symbols persist.
    — Travis Whitlock, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The president is set to sign an executive order adding the new name as a secondary title.
    — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The likely truth is that an executive order solves very little, if anything.
    — Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2026
  • But the president signed an executive order on his first day in office to delay the ban.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
  • There are many provisions to the act and, therefore, to the executive order.
    — Maya Wiley, The New Republic, 27 May 2022
  • Trump's executive order calls for diverting some of those funds.
    — Brian Mann, NPR, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The sheer number of executive orders tells the story.
    — Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • Better yet, he’s promised to lead by example and not executive orders.
    — Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2025
  • This new executive order goes much further.
    — Jason M. Blazakis, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • It was removed in response to the same March executive order.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The Supreme Court backed part of mail-in ballot executive order.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Still, Johnson said in a statement that the change was a product of his executive order.
    — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
  • In contrast, executive orders are the whims of a single person.
    — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The way executive orders have been coming down have been causing a lot of chaos in the nonprofit field at the moment.
    — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Trump signs scaled-back AI executive order.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 2 June 2026
  • What does Trump’s executive order do?
    — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2026
  • What would Trump's executive order do?
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026

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