conformity
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A sport cannot function seriously on a world scale without such conformity, and a World Cup - launched in 1963 and contested every four years since - needed that.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Homo Sovieticus displayed self-abasement, passivity in the face of authority and extreme conformity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
For years before she landed at CBS News in October, Weiss built a career criticizing ideological conformity and supposed institutional intolerance.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026
In a May 5 ruling seen by AFP, the court said VW "failed in its obligation of conformity" by selling nearly 950,000 vehicles equipped with the devices in France between 2007 and 2015.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law.”
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Director Milos Forman was shaped by European sensibilities but his films were shrewd and intimate portraits of the yearnings, transgressions, politics, sexual fascinations, rebelliousness and complicated conformities that soothed, rattled and challenged the American spirit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018
In particular, Garnett thoroughly scorned “commercialism, the insularity of the English, their demand that literature should merely endorse prevailing social norms and conformities, the expectation of ‘healthy optimism’ and a happy ending.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2018
For these seekers after truth, “the woods” became, like “the greenwood” in Merrie England, the place where an individual could truly savour the mysteries of life, free from the restricting conformities of church and state.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2017
“Our contexts are not the same, our struggles are not the same, and so our rebellions and complacencies and conformities and compromises cannot be compared.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2017
Or, as before said, to free us from these idolatries and superstitious conformities, there has still to come a protestantism in social usages.
From English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Frederick William Roe
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Power Prefix: con-
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