obedience
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“My ever increasing involvement and identification with the poor only continues to widen the gap between my obedience to religious authority and my own understanding of what my life as a Christian must entail.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Curiosity has a way of making obedience conditional.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Then it hacked the module that enforces blind obedience and embarked on a long journey to becoming human, with a full set of emotions spanning love, grief and . . . just kidding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
It's days before Eid al-Adha or the "Festival of Sacrifice", one of the two major Muslim holidays, which commemorates the obedience of Prophet Ibrahim.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
“But now, Sam, you know dat all he do is big-belly round and tell other folks what tuh do. He loves obedience out of everybody under de sound of his voice.”
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
Vocabulary lists containing obedience
The Mayflower Compact (1620)
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 2
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"The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, Act V
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