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Synonyms
compliance, conformity, obedience, subordination
Antonyms
balkiness, contrariness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, insubordination, intractability, noncompliance, obstreperousness, rebelling, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, self-will, unruliness, waywardness, willfulness
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The effect is less entertainment than a sort of submission to the real—a narrative vérité of which Greengrass, a British filmmaker who started his career in documentaries, has become a specialist. — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, "Paul Greengrass’s New Netflix Film, 22 July, Is Excruciating and Essential," 10 Oct. 2018 Cold War is Poland’s absolutely gorgeous black-and-white submission to the Oscars for best foreign language film. — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, "New trailers: Rocketman, Vice, She-Ra, and more," 6 Oct. 2018 After the Civil War, Fea points out, historians don't see many references to Romans 13, because the essence of the passage – submission to authority – is regarded as un-American. — Author: Keith Mcmillan, Julie Zauzmer, Anchorage Daily News, "Sessions says the Bible justifies separating immigrant families," 15 June 2018 Details about how to submit ideas, along with the submission form, can be found at arlingtonma.gov/culturaldistrict. — Jennifer Fenn Lefferts, BostonGlobe.com, "Arlington Cultural District calls for ideas, proposals," 6 June 2018 The state Water Planning Council has created on online submission form, while the Connecticut Council on Environmental Quality is asking for emails instead. — Don Stacom, Courant Community, "State Water Quality Councils Invite Public To Comment on Tilcon Plan," 14 Apr. 2018 Murray and Lévy's submissions to the parliamentary committee echo Delaere's concerns and add several accusations. — Matt Warren, Science | AAAS, "Two controversial stem cell trials could harm patients, critics say," 29 Mar. 2018 This should help guard against extensions that use harmless external code during the initial submission to the store but then later replace that code with something malicious once the extension has been published to the store. — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, "Google taking new steps to prevent malicious Chrome extensions," 2 Oct. 2018 Dr Bohannon’s experiment did lack a true control—submission to journals that still charge subscriptions. — The Economist, "Some science journals that claim to peer review papers do not do so," 21 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'submission.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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