obedient

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Descriptors such as "intelligent," "obedient," "good with children," "dedicated," "calm," and "cheerful" appeared with similar frequency in both groups.

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025

“Sometimes we would just punch it and it would work,” says director Yorgos Lanthimos, who relied on more obedient cameras for past films including his Oscar-nominated “Poor Things” and “The Favourite.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

Fittingly, Pattinson hunches his shoulders and curls his upper lip: an obedient lab rat.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

In that worldview, children are expected to "conform to in-group norms, be obedient, be orderly, be disciplined."

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2024

He reappeared, hat first, over the brow of the hill, and behind him came in an obedient line six ponies: their own five and one more.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien