adherence
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The government said the authorization didn’t “mandate rigid adherence to that design.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
He noted breakdowns that could be solved with better adherence to the game plan and understanding of the opposing team’s personnel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Among participants with higher adherence, systolic blood pressure, the top number in a blood pressure reading, was 5.2 mmHg lower in the intervention group than in the comparator group.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Better adherence to every one of the 10 diets was associated with slower biological aging.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
They were rich for all their Quaker adherence to the simple life.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
Whether the Stones and Pebles, that are wash'd by the Brooks, Springs, or other Waters, have any colour'd substance left upon them; and if they have, of what colour, weight, &c. these adherences are?
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg
Some of these adherences resembled pouches with holes, pumping the sea, disgorging vapour, and refilling themselves with water.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
First, man must independently investigate reality, for the disagreements and dissensions which afflict and affect humanity primarily proceed from imitations of ancestral beliefs and adherences to hereditary forms of worship.
From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá
The object has been to keep the old family, and the old adherences, and the old acres together.
From Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope
Like the tree or vine just mention'd, it stands at last in a beauty, power and productiveness of its own, above all others, and of a sort and style uniting all criticisms, proofs and adherences.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
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Herbert Hoover on "Rugged Individualism" (1928)
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