obeyed
Example Sentences
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Driverless cars haven’t always obeyed the rules of the road but, unlike vehicles with humans behind the wheel, they’ve gotten away with it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
I’d obeyed and failed to hit my Activity Goals for several days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
When calculating probabilities with Bayes' rule, the principle of minimum change is obeyed.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2025
Indeed, the characteristic feature of a country ruled by law is the shared understanding that court orders will be obeyed without the necessity of employing force or other modes of coercion.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025
“He said, ‘If you’d obeyed me, as you should, you wouldn’t have been out in the Big Woods after dark, and you wouldn’t have been scared by a screech-owl.’”
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
