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adherence

[ad-heer-uhns, -her-] / ædˈhɪər əns, -ˈhɛr- /


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Another program that incorporated motivational interviewing increased cardiac patients' activity by 1,800 steps per day while also improving medication adherence.

From Science Daily Sep. 1, 2026

The main condition for nonprofits’ favorable tax status is scrupulous adherence to the law.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Though she showed many classic early childhood indicators — sensitivity to noise, extremely limited food preferences, rigid adherence to routine and difficulties understanding social nuances — no one suggested she was autistic.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

A study looking at adherence to the Mediterranean diet among U.S. college students found that those with more financial security were better able to follow the Mediterranean diet than those with more financial constraints.

From MarketWatch Aug. 16, 2026

“I don’t just wake up like this. It takes good hair products, a vigorous workout, and relentless adherence to my skin-care routine.”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

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

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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