obedience
Example Sentences
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It felt like he had that level of power, and everyone essentially acquiesced and you had this sort of anticipatory obedience.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
Padrino was one of few close Maduro allies to have remained in the interim government, having sworn "loyalty and absolute obedience" to Rodriguez.
From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026
Vince Gilligan chewed over the concept behind “Pluribus” for most of a decade, nullifying any theories that the show is commenting on our culture’s lurch into blind obedience to authoritarianism.
From Salon • Dec. 29, 2025
Using songs based on real Shaker hymns, the movie’s most technically ambitious and narratively gratifying scenes depict these vigorous motions as communal expressions of hunger, obedience, grief, devotion and ecstasy.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025
Danny Saunders screamed in Yiddish across the field, and more out of obedience than awareness the third baseman put a foot on the base.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
Vocabulary lists containing obedience
The Mayflower Compact (1620)
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 2
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The Miracle Worker
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