conformity
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An EU directive, which took effect in 2006, required the use of an EU-wide "CE" mark which stands for Conformité Européenne - French for "European Conformity".
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2022
Conformity infuriated him: In one early routine he declared that Brooks Brothers stores didn’t have mirrors; customers just stood in front of one another to see how they looked.
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2021
It doesn't really matter if you're all wearing t-shirts that say "SQUAD," I just read it as, "Enforced Conformity."
From Salon • Jul. 2, 2021
Conformity can help explain why vaccine skeptics tend to cluster in certain communities.
From Scientific American • Sep. 3, 2019
Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to anomaly.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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