obedience

Example Sentences

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It felt like he had that level of power, and everyone essentially acquiesced and you had this sort of anticipatory obedience.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

The Guards Corps said in a statement it was "ready for complete obedience and self-sacrifice in carrying out the divine commands" of the younger Khamenei.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

Vince Gilligan chewed over the concept behind “Pluribus” for most of a decade, nullifying any theories that the show is commenting on our culture’s lurch into blind obedience to authoritarianism.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2025

It reflects a deliberate choice to skew incentives toward obedience in the name of hierarchy, discipline, and civilian control, even at the expense of allowing some illegal orders to be carried out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Lucinda would have hated for me to evade my obedience by rising above it.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine