conformity
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Freed from the shackles of girl group conformity, Jade Thirlwall threw everything, including the kitchen sink, at her solo debut.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
For years before she landed at CBS News in October, Weiss built a career criticizing ideological conformity and supposed institutional intolerance.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026
In a May 5 ruling seen by AFP, the court said VW "failed in its obligation of conformity" by selling nearly 950,000 vehicles equipped with the devices in France between 2007 and 2015.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
Some of the outfits seem to confer the power of flight, though that illusion is fostered by the delirious energy of human forms liberated from conformity.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Director Milos Forman was shaped by European sensibilities but his films were shrewd and intimate portraits of the yearnings, transgressions, politics, sexual fascinations, rebelliousness and complicated conformities that soothed, rattled and challenged the American spirit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018
In particular, Garnett thoroughly scorned “commercialism, the insularity of the English, their demand that literature should merely endorse prevailing social norms and conformities, the expectation of ‘healthy optimism’ and a happy ending.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2018
For these seekers after truth, “the woods” became, like “the greenwood” in Merrie England, the place where an individual could truly savour the mysteries of life, free from the restricting conformities of church and state.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2017
“Our contexts are not the same, our struggles are not the same, and so our rebellions and complacencies and conformities and compromises cannot be compared.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2017
There is the insistence upon certain decencies and certain conformities which constitute what is known as morality.
From Horace and His Influence by Grant Showerman
Vocabulary lists containing conformity
Power Prefix: con-
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