adherence

The government said the authorization didn’t “mandate rigid adherence to that design.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

He noted breakdowns that could be solved with better adherence to the game plan and understanding of the opposing team’s personnel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

"Despite the study's adherence to its mandate, its findings were sidelined."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

"We have evidence that poor adherence to antihypertensive medication is associated with worse outcomes," explained presenter, Miss Qianqian Yang from the University of Oxford, UK.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

But it must be noted that Dobie’s adherence to the rules may have been a wee bit lax.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

First, man must independently investigate reality, for the disagreements and dissensions which afflict and affect humanity primarily proceed from imitations of ancestral beliefs and adherences to hereditary forms of worship.

From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Whether the Stones and Pebles, that are wash'd by the Brooks, Springs, or other Waters, have any colour'd substance left upon them; and if they have, of what colour, weight, &c. these adherences are?

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg

Like the tree or vine just mention'd, it stands at last in a beauty, power and productiveness of its own, above all others, and of a sort and style uniting all criticisms, proofs and adherences.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Some of these adherences resembled pouches with holes, pumping the sea, disgorging vapour, and refilling themselves with water.

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

The object has been to keep the old family, and the old adherences, and the old acres together.

From Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope