conformity
Example Sentences
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When such state threats are systematized, they can foment a broader climate of fear, self-censorship and conformity.
From Salon • May 28, 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
Some of the outfits seem to confer the power of flight, though that illusion is fostered by the delirious energy of human forms liberated from conformity.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Whatever one thinks of Reform—and it’s hard to know what to think of it—such an outcome would suggest that Scotland’s era of slumbrous conformity may soon come to an end.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Or are they simply manifesting the worst aspects of adolescence—an obsession with conformity, group identity, and peer approval combined with an appetite for risk and sensation?
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
Vocabulary lists containing conformity
Power Prefix: con-
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Grade 10, List 5
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