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conforming

adjective as in agreeing

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To call them weird, to banish them to the monstrous hinterlands, is to claw back the ability to define whether behavior is prosocial or antisocial, to determine what principles we should be conforming to.

From Slate

“As a result of that, there has been an increasing tendency in translation to overlook disfigurations of the original text in favor of conforming to foreign readers’ tastes,” Jeong said.

"They can get away with whatever they want because they're not really conforming to the same rules or standards as everyone else".

From BBC

The Guardian acknowledged that there were "expected clichés, but there are also many that are mercifully avoided too, the story not always conforming to type".

From BBC

Before Medicare money began flowing, despite passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and federal court rulings requiring desegregation, hospitals across the South were still conforming to criminal codes long used to enforce racial discrimination.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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