How to Use diktat in a Sentence

diktat

noun
  • The company president issued a diktat that employees may not wear jeans to work.
  • There is no strong diktat of special trends like in the past.
    — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 27 Jan. 2025
  • With no trend diktats or social-media hype, Hey Jane!
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • For the Randian faithful, this pair of diktats have withstood the test of time.
    — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Both defenders and the critics start from the premise that government diktats are the only variable here.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 10 Apr. 2020
  • His fighting back against this diktat helps make the character more than just a passive interrogator.
    — Daniel D’addario, Time, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Vision statements and culture values aren’t diktats.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • An earthquake in Utah can take a factory offline as quickly as a diktat from Beijing.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 26 Mar. 2020
  • This column is holding out hope that demands from consumers rather than diktats from bureaucrats will chart the future of social media.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • At the same time, policy is now being driven by economics, not government diktat.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Lawmakers in a few states have refused to bow to partisan diktats from Washington and are paying a price.
    — Dallas Morning News, Twin Cities, 1 May 2026
  • The diktats of social realism do not allow for the supernatural on stage.
    — Cynthia Haven, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Some in Washington want to take health insurance choices away from workers and replace them with the diktats of politicians.
    — Avik Roy, Twin Cities, 20 June 2019
  • No wonder tens of thousands of parents have put their children on waiting lists for charter schools that are free to hire and fire teachers on the merits, not by union diktat.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 July 2017
  • Nothing brings Chinatown together quite like the sense that the city’s leaders are governing by diktat.
    — Esther Wang, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The first is the nature of top-down diktats about supply, which lack flexibility and therefore tend to generate volatile outcomes.
    — The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017
  • For many, India is just too vast and various ever to succumb to some unitary nationalist diktat.
    — Roger Cohen Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • For many, India is just too vast and various ever to succumb to some unitary nationalist diktat.
    — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Even though Trump controls two branches of the federal government, the third branch—the judiciary—will not bow to his diktat.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2017
  • Theaters, alas, can’t overcome the six-foot rule, that social distance diktat pulled from a hat by some boob public-health lifer whose idea of culture is online solitaire.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The higher minimum wage appears doable — thanks to the city’s prosperity, not the diktat of the vanguard of the revolution.
    — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Bowser is far from the first official to apparently flout her own pandemic diktat, and each new story like this invites public revolt.
    — Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Washington had gotten used to issuing diktats to South Korea - and will have to relearn old habits, Paal said.
    — chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2017
  • Following the diktat of the programmer to maximize the game score, the algorithm did so and figured out the rules of the game over thousands and thousands trials.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2016
  • An ecological diktat that could signal the end of French gastronomy, even French culture!
    — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Many of the measures were approved by an overwhelming majority of the judges, with an Israeli judge even voting in favor of two of the half dozen diktats imposed.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • And the courts should strike down the order as an unlawful effort to discriminate against Muslims by executive diktat.
    — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 29 Jan. 2017
  • In some respects, a diktat was already announced last summer by reducing remote working to two days per week, with badges checked and email reprimands for employees who fail to toe the line.
    — Anna Zanardi Cappon, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • His diktat was an extraordinary usurpation of Congress’s power of the purse, which is why several states are suing in federal court to stop it.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Mr Zhou also steered China towards a system in which banks set interest rates themselves, rather than merely follow government diktats.
    — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018

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