conformity

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America’s artists will resist this latest attempt at dictating conformity in a hundred different ways.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2026

The family argued that their rights, which requires the State providing education to "respect the right of parents to ensure such education is in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions", had been contravened.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025

The book was followed by William H. Whyte’s “The Organization Man,” published in 1956, which explored how large corporations bred conformity in managers and, as a result, lost their ability to be innovative.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

Unforced but ever-present in Reichardt’s mise-en-scène, they remind us that this bored aesthete’s misadventure is an especially empty way to buck conformity.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

In the old days he had hidden a heretical mind beneath an appearance of conformity.

From "1984" by George Orwell