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He soon began to see systemic issues represented in his pictures — such as the ways Black people are expected to conform to white standards of beauty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

It said India's construction of hydroelectric projects on the Indus and associated rivers had to conform to the 1960 treaty.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Professor Inger Brodey alleged that the school’s hiring was marred by “improprieties, slander, vindictiveness and manipulation” and accused Mr. Atkins of hiring “candidates who conform to unspoken, homogenous, ideological criteria.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Other coroners linked fatalities to e-bikes and e-scooters that did not conform to UK safety standards.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Jane, your films were about sticking it to the man, snapping back at the patriarchy by showing strong female protagonists who didn’t conform to gender roles.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

“Duchamp Takes New York” readily conforms to the predictable narrative about the artist, glorifying his influence and spirit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

This conforms with polling, which estimates his name recognition at 6 percent.

From Slate ● May 13, 2026

That is an unlikely scenario, but one being discussed in golfing quarters - DeChambeau rarely conforms to the norm.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

This allowed the works to be safeguarded until the museum could reopen "in a modern format that conforms to international standards", she added.

From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025

But I do feel like every second we spend standing these inches apart is one that I must impress upon my mind until my entire memory conforms to its shape.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

Speaking in Bangkok earlier this month, Warsh said that US economic conditions had "broadly conformed" to policymakers' expectations, fueling speculation that the Fed may pause at the October meeting.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

When researchers applied a small electrical potential, the cornea gradually softened and conformed to the shape of the lens.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026

The trust's Transitioning in the Workplace policy allowed a person to use the single-sex space that conformed with their gender identity, and anyone of that sex who objected could change elsewhere.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026

A BLS spokeswoman said that its approach to Thursday’s report conformed with the agency’s longstanding plans for handling missing data, consistent with international standards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

She got the recliner secondhand, so it wasn’t covered in plastic, which meant it had conformed to her shape.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

Not all of Sybylla’s experiences are upbeat or encouraging—she is constitutionally incapable of conforming, which gets her in constant trouble among the more proper circles into which she is thrust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

For 2026, Freddie and Fannie have a conforming limit of $832,750 for single-family home loans, though the limit can increase as much as 50% — to $1,249,125 — in certain high-cost areas.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

But then "people started conforming to behave in ways that would not show racism. That doesn't mean that it's now absent", she adds.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

The trick was to be taken seriously as a professional without appearing to care about conforming to a standard and certainly without showing that one actually cared.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026

Many of the commonest usage errors are the result of writers thinking logically when they should be mindlessly conforming to convention.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker