obedience
Example Sentences
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Around the seal, was the declaration, in Latin: “Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
Obedience is giving up your personal identity, your own agency and your conscience.
From Salon • Jan. 8, 2025
The Times Literary Supplement said: "Bernstein's chief brilliance in Study for Obedience is the subtlety with which she shifts our perception."
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2023
Obedience training can be wonderful and exciting, she said, for some dogs and their humans.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2023
The second and third days were a new game, called Obedience, or Being Good.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
Vocabulary lists containing obedience
The Mayflower Compact (1620)
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 2
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"The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, Act V
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