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conforming

adjective as in agreeing

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One of the most popular fabrics in running shoes, nylon wicks sweat and it’s stretchy, so it will more easily conform to the shape of your feet while you’re on the run.

Hamilton wanted the chance to invest in the ideas and people who didn’t conform to the expected image of how a founder is supposed to look.

From Fortune

For some customers, the experience of dining at home over Thanksgiving might even be freeing, as they’re not forced to conform to the traditional roast turkey and mashed potato crowd pleasers or commit to long hours in the kitchen.

From Eater

A sturdy nose wire easily conforms to fit your face, stays in place, and helps anchor sunglasses without much fogging.

It does not fit the mold of public opinion, and it does not conform to shifting standards.

From Vox

This, in turn, will require that free and fair elections—conforming to international standards—are at long last held in Iran.

There would be, he said, an “anxiety that comes with not conforming to the ideological norm.”

For women with ADHD conforming to these problematic standards is a herculean task.

“Women with mental illness have a much harder time conforming their behavior to staff expectations,” Smith said.

The Swedes are treating gender-conforming children the way we once treated gender-variant children.

He permitted a plurality of wives, conforming in this point to the immemorial usage of the orientals.

By conforming to the Laws of this Universe; instead of trying by pettifogging to evade and profitably contradict them.

A silver head may be placed on the wood of a walking stick, precisely conforming on the outside to the form of the wood within.

The enemy under Bragg lay between us and stone River in order of battle, his general line conforming to the course of that stream.

To scold her for not conforming to our twentieth-century code of morals is preposterous in its presumption.

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

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