adherence
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The merged company will have an oversight board that will monitor adherence to editorial independence from its owners and shareholders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The next thing I think you start seeing is the court becoming interested in, despite its professed adherence to textualism, reading these statutes with an eyebrow raised.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
By using AI to instantly verify policy adherence whenever possible, it became easier to retire the old bureaucracy, according to Bardeen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Russia's Ambassador to Budapest, Evgeny Stanislavov, reacted bitterly to Anita Orbán's intention to continue "the necessary dialogue, based on mutual respect and adherence to the rules".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
“I don’t just wake up like this. It takes good hair products, a vigorous workout, and relentless adherence to my skin-care routine.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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
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
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
The object has been to keep the old family, and the old adherences, and the old acres together.
From Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope
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
Vocabulary lists containing adherence
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