obey

Modern Europe is built on an assumption that citizens pay taxes and obey laws.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Stilwell said she uses treats as a bond-building tool—not to get dogs to obey commands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Astronomers have long suspected that black holes obey the same basic physical rules even when their masses differ enormously.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Hubinger said Anthropic is "trying its best", but does not yet have a plan to ensure an AI system that surpasses human capabilities would obey its creators.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

My limbs wouldn’t obey my confused thoughts, as if they trusted themselves to be better judges of what I needed.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

In other words, the deal appears to strike a balance that will ensure the university obeys the law without coercive overreach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

He added that he "obeys the government and will pay it" as he didn't know the repayment was not legally required.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025

Min-sung obeys Young-tak to ensure access to resources, but at home Myung-hwa can’t hide her disappointment in him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

Quantum mechanics background: All the matter in the universe obeys the laws of quantum theory, but we only really observe quantum behaviour at the scale of atoms and molecules.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023

This time, Nita obeys, putting her knife on the edge of the table right in front of her.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

But it was PSG who obeyed the message, delivering a third-minute hammer blow when Georgian genius Khvicha Kvaratskhelia raced down the wing before setting up Ousmane Dembele to lash a finish high past Manuel Neuer.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

I’d obeyed and failed to hit my Activity Goals for several days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

When calculating probabilities with Bayes' rule, the principle of minimum change is obeyed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2025

Indeed, the characteristic feature of a country ruled by law is the shared understanding that court orders will be obeyed without the necessity of employing force or other modes of coercion.

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025

It was one simple word, spoken softly, but at once every woman in the circle obeyed, getting to their feet.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

We let ourselves blend into the algorithm, feeding and obeying the machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

Some of them had no intention of obeying their village chief.

From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026

Pasha said he was instructed to film and send proof to the authorities that the school was obeying the new curriculum.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

However, the Nuremberg tribunals after World War II established in international law that obeying an unlawful order does not absolve an individual of responsibility for atrocities.

From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2025

The salon stood at the top of marble steps leading up from the garden.The party guests drifted toward it, dutifully obeying the summons to greet El Patron.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer