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dictate to

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dictate (something) to someone 
1. to speak out words to someone who writes them down; to speak words into a recording device to be written down later by someone. Walter dictated a letter to his secretary. Please come in so I can dictate to you.
2. to lay out or spell out the exact terms of something to someone; to act as a dictator. You can't dictate the rules to us. Please don't dictate to me.


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but they don't have the right to dictate to the public school system what their children can be exposed to in the way of ideas," Davis said.
Talk and Go(TM) technology -- enables users to dictate to digital recorders.
Upon distribution of MacSpeech Dictate to retail outlets, the iListen product will be immediately discontinued.
 
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