deference
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Former Fed official Kocherlakota said there has been deference shown to the views of the chair, but it was not automatic support.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
The islands’ extreme deference to animals—many of which only exist here—was codified into law in 2022 in a landmark case involving a woolly monkey named Estrellita.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
"It is the start of a test - of whether influence is better exercised through conditional engagement, parallel institutions and results-driven partnerships than through deference to an organisation that has struggled to learn from failure."
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
This deference is warranted, the justice argues, because of just how supremely important sports are to the development of young people.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
In English, they would be free of the sharply defined gradients of Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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