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Astronomers have long suspected that black holes obey the same basic physical rules even when their masses differ enormously.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Hubinger said Anthropic is "trying its best", but does not yet have a plan to ensure an AI system that surpasses human capabilities would obey its creators.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

But Buddy doesn’t like it when the children don’t obey him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The president said he had no choice but to obey his security team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

"It's tommyrot. But just for once I think we've got to obey the doctor."

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

In other words, the deal appears to strike a balance that will ensure the university obeys the law without coercive overreach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

He added that he "obeys the government and will pay it" as he didn't know the repayment was not legally required.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025

Min-sung obeys Young-tak to ensure access to resources, but at home Myung-hwa can’t hide her disappointment in him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

Quantum mechanics background: All the matter in the universe obeys the laws of quantum theory, but we only really observe quantum behaviour at the scale of atoms and molecules.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023

I like that she defied my mother to go to the Moon Festival, whereas Helene always obeys the Commandant.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

In the end, Grier instructed the jury that the Fugitive Slave Law should be obeyed but that individual resistance did not amount to treason.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The broader biographical facts are obeyed, but “Amadeus” is fundamentally ahistorical, and sometimes implausible: It is to be trusted only as television.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

But it was PSG who obeyed the message, delivering a third-minute hammer blow when Georgian genius Khvicha Kvaratskhelia raced down the wing before setting up Ousmane Dembele to lash a finish high past Manuel Neuer.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

Indeed, the characteristic feature of a country ruled by law is the shared understanding that court orders will be obeyed without the necessity of employing force or other modes of coercion.

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025

With much loud grumbling at being kept from the quest, King Smoit obeyed Gwydion and turned away from the column, riding toward Caer Cadarn to ready his warriors.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

Some of them had no intention of obeying their village chief.

From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026

Pasha said he was instructed to film and send proof to the authorities that the school was obeying the new curriculum.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

However, the Nuremberg tribunals after World War II established in international law that obeying an unlawful order does not absolve an individual of responsibility for atrocities.

From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2025

Binance set up Binance.US in 2019 as a bare-bones American platform obeying U.S. rules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

“Tell me, what does it say in there about obeying the government?”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom