conform

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"As telescopes and detection methods become more precise, we are strengthening our ability to find planetary systems that don't resemble our own and that don't conform to longstanding theories," he says.

From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2026

Such forces will remain in place and be turned against anyone who does not submit and conform.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

Tourists were expected to conform to the local trash culture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

Then she herself became an icon: a beautiful, liberated, modern woman who refused to conform to outdated stereotypes.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

Before the end of World War II, when Emperor Hirohito finally told the Japanese people that he was not of divine descent, Japanese archaeologists and historians had to make their interpretations conform to this account.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond