How to Use codify in a Sentence

codify

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  • The convention codified the rules of war.
  • The author tries to codify important ideas about language.
  • Part of my job was just to be able to sort of like codify those and explain them.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Schall believes this change is here to stay, and that more state and local minimum wage increases would codify the change.
    — Camille Squires, Quartz, 4 Jan. 2022
  • For one thing, computers exaggerate and codify our love of putting things in boxes.
    — Kc Cole, Wired, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Instead, the scientists found that people who like black coffee and dark chocolate have specific gene variants that codify a faster caffeine metabolism.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The House plans to vote on a bill to codify the program.
    — Mark Maremont, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The Supreme Court has spoken, and Democrats don't have the votes to codify Roe.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 13 July 2022
  • But the Court itself does not codify those laws—that’s the job of the legislative branch.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 4 May 2022
  • There are not enough votes in the Senate to codify Roe v. Wade into law.
    — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 30 June 2022
  • Toma said the Legislature had used the 30-minute-per-bill rule for the past two years already, and the new rules codify that.
    — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 27 Jan. 2023
  • They’re scheduled to meet next week to codify the ticket.
    — Bryan Walsh, Vox, 23 July 2024
  • On Wednesday, a bill to codify Roe into law failed to pass the Senate.
    — CBS News, 14 May 2022
  • The mood was one of anger and defiance, three days after the Senate failed to muster enough votes to codify Roe v. Wade.
    — Ashraf Khalil, David Sharp, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2022
  • And while there are 26 states that may overturn Roe all or in part, there are also states that will codify Roe.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 15 June 2022
  • Scalzitti has an even longer form than her talks to groups to codify her approach.
    — George Castle, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Democrats urged voters to elect more Democrats to the senate in order to codify Roe into law.
    — CBS News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • And this was two decades after the 40-hour workweek was codified into law.
    — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
  • These are absurd things that are now being codified in law.
    — Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • While the existence of writers room is not codified in the MBA, neither is the existence of a showrunner.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Democrats are going to fight to codify Roe from Congress, to stake out the most extreme positions in blue states.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 1 July 2022
  • The bill also codifies some of the industry standards for the handling of firearms, which had been voluntary.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 June 2023
  • Congress needs to codify a woman’s right to choose her own destiny.
    — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Hue royal cuisine, in other words, has not been codified in cookbooks in the same way French cooking has.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Now, without the votes in the Senate to codify Roe into law, Democrats are turning to November.
    — NBC News, 26 June 2022
  • That was the 1920s, when antisemitism became more entrenched and codified here.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on a bill that would codify Roe into law.
    — Donovan Slack, USA TODAY, 11 May 2022
  • In the three decades after the loophole was codified, annual growth was 2.1 percent.
    — Robert Draper, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • Research skills, the ability to codify, and writing skills are part and parcel of their training.
    — Christian Stadler, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Yet, perversely, his behavior is also condoned, even codified, by church and state.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024

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