deference
Example Sentences
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Over time Warsh may get that deference, but for now it’s “early days” for him, Kocherlakota said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
In plain and punchy prose, he at times rebuked his fellow justices for not showing sufficient deference to the president.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Serpell writes that “Morrison has shaped the way we think about everything,” that she wrote to “think the unthinkable,” to write novels that were “relentlessly black,” giving no deference to the “white gaze.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 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 deference to the glad occasion, his foot kept the rhythm of the dance and his usually stem mien was softened.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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