How to Use fiat in a Sentence

fiat

noun
  • He runs the company by fiat.
  • It cannot be bought or declared by fiat; it must be earned through practice.
    — Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • This report does not take the form of a fiat but that of a consensus.
    — Steve Brozak, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • And, the trend now is for projects to come by presidential fiat.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Trump is governing by whim and fiat where the facts don’t matter.
    — Bob Rawitch, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The blockchain’s sanctity had been altered by fiat from above.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • But the tax treatment of a coin tied to a basket of fiat currencies is not clear.
    — Timothy Massad, Fortune, 15 July 2019
  • His goal of governing by fiat would not happen without a fight.
    — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The fiat layer and the on-chain layer behave like the same balance.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Compared to most fiat currencies, this alone makes bitcoin stand out.
    — Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Stablecoins are backed by various assets such as bonds or fiat.
    — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The other view is that the underlying expenses were paid in fiat, so any award should be paid in pounds.
    — Susie Violet Ward, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • The bank holds the underlying fiat fully reserved and does not lend or invest it.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Bitcoin is a revolt against fiat money**, and an all-meat diet is a revolt against fiat food.
    — Mike Albo and Amanda Duarte, Town & Country, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Trump’s promotion of himself as a law-and-order president with a miles-wide fiat to rule.
    — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2020
  • But the world’s second-biggest economy will not heal by Mr Xi’s fiat alone.
    — The Economist, 30 Apr. 2020
  • His move to cut subsidies is an effort to hobble the law by executive fiat.
    — Andrew M Harris, Bloomberg.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Where the very meaning of gender is codified in clothing and hair — facial or flowing — as well as by fiat.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • To my mind, going from one fiat to the other doesn't make sense — the true dollar diversifier is gold.
    — Michael Considine, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The fact of the matter is that where there has been money there has always been credit and where there is credit there is always some kind of fiat.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Those who deposit with fiat currency can get a welcome bonus up to $2,000.
    — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Both have operated from a sense that things begin and end by CEO fiat.
    — Calvin Woodward, ajc, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The president has failed to see politics as the art of persuasion and is instead ruling by fiat.
    — Catherine Poisson, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • While the British were talking about it year after year, the Germans decided to do it more or less by fiat.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The implication is that what the vanguard struggled to achieve by fiat was going to happen anyway.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • However, users need to be able to convert these digital assets to fiat currency and back again.
    — Kate Drew, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • Kraken has launched Krak for crypto and fiat transfers across more than 100 countries.
    — Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • This ‘fiat’ — let it be done — is essential to the sisters’ conception of their identity as an order.
    — Lamorna Ash, The Dial, 6 May 2025
  • Payments are made in crypto or via PayPal, with plans afoot to integrate a fiat offramp.
    — Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • The addition of new groups or countries would thus take place pursuant to a public law, not secret executive fiat.
    — Elizabeth Goitein, Fortune, 4 June 2018

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