obey
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The new Americans took an oath of allegiance promising to, among other things, obey and defend the US Constitution.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Because visitors and immigrants must obey U.S. laws, the court found that they are subject to its jurisdiction.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
He figures that if they have to exist, they ought to obey him.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
“But that doesn’t sound like the same thing as committing that you will obey a court order,” Murphy said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
The next day, demonstrators waiting to register at the courthouse refused to obey the sheriff’s order to line up in the back alley where they had been confined the day before.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
The gravel bucket obeys that law, since shaking creates heat, which is disordered energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
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
“Or anyway, it obeys you better than the marten does.”
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
Abrahamson said Good should have obeyed the officer’s command to exit from the vehicle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Military law establishes a strong presumption that military orders are lawful and must be obeyed.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025
“We obeyed the law and we kept the peace. And that’s not bad.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024
Specifically, the researchers tested whether their hypothesized mathematical rules were obeyed by the structures in the database, which guided them toward principles that known structures were highly likely to follow.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
But both Caroline and I obeyed, leaving the little scene on the dock behind, making our slow progress up the narrow oyster-shell street between the picket fences that enclosed each house.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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
It DE decides a school is not obeying the guidance it can be named and shamed.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
Binance set up Binance.US in 2019 as a bare-bones American platform obeying U.S. rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Increasingly, U.S. companies are worried that by obeying U.S. laws, they could run afoul of Chinese rules.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2025
Flowers stopped obeying the little bricks that kept them from growing beyond their paths.
From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
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