conform
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It said it was unacceptable that people were excluded from AI or are made to conform to narrow beauty standards.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
He soon began to see systemic issues represented in his pictures — such as the ways Black people are expected to conform to white standards of beauty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Yet she worries that ultra-Orthodox residents want the rest of the city to conform to their lifestyle.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
At the opposite end, Ms. Clancy could be found not guilty because she didn’t appreciate the wrongfulness of her actions or was unable to make her behavior conform to the law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
My parents refused to conform to a lot of things.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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This conforms with polling, which estimates his name recognition at 6 percent.
From Slate ● May 13, 2026
That is an unlikely scenario, but one being discussed in golfing quarters - DeChambeau rarely conforms to the norm.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Jeremy Grantham’s Wall Street career exactly conforms to this charmed sequence, but with what troubles along the way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
This allowed the works to be safeguarded until the museum could reopen "in a modern format that conforms to international standards", she added.
From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025
At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual fife— that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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"I want to say broadly over the month or so that's transpired since then, the world has broadly conformed to our expectations."
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
That dwarfed the offerings of Morocco, which had no existing stadiums that conformed to tournament specifications and would need to spend upwards of $15 billion to prepare for a World Cup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
When researchers applied a small electrical potential, the cornea gradually softened and conformed to the shape of the lens.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026
A BLS spokeswoman said that its approach to Thursday’s report conformed with the agency’s longstanding plans for handling missing data, consistent with international standards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
They've conformed to me and can't be worn by anyone but me.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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Not all of Sybylla’s experiences are upbeat or encouraging—she is constitutionally incapable of conforming, which gets her in constant trouble among the more proper circles into which she is thrust.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
But if you qualify for a conforming loan, you may save on fees by going to a bank.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
They produce conforming and compliant speech and behavior, which can have longer-term social impacts.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
But then "people started conforming to behave in ways that would not show racism. That doesn't mean that it's now absent", she adds.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
I tie my shoes in a hurry, pull on a jacket, and sprint out of the room, catching up to the line of initiates quickly, conforming my pace to theirs.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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