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Recent Examples of abidance Given the developing nature of the industry, brands should continually evaluate their technology to ensure continued compliance, future abidance by regulations and that their tools fit with their brand’s goals and mission. Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2021 For now, many are highlighting success in other countries, and the glimmers of hope emerging in places like Washington state, where new infections are still occurring, but not as rapidly as before, thanks to widespread abidance to distancing. Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2020 Unlike Samsung, South Korea’s largest chaebol, which has been mired in scandal, LG oozes reliability and law abidance. The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abidance
Noun
  • Labor In a section of the report focused on workers’ rights and safety, the NCP reiterates its gripes about lack of supplier audit documentation and adherence to local law rather than international standards.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
  • When Seedance and Seedream came out, his team conducted internal testing to compare their prompt adherence, image quality, speed, and cost to American competitors.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That continuity blurs the interiors with the outside world.
    Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Amid the churn in Europe and globally, with trenchant nationalism on the rise, and a war raging in Ukraine just 1,200 miles from the palace, many might say that having a hereditary royal as their head of state offers some reassuring continuity, acting as a counterweight to political upheaval.
    Vivienne Walt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Consequently, every knowledge worker must adopt a risk management mindset, constantly assessing the potential blast radius of their prompts and acting as a steward of their company’s data, controls, and compliance obligations.
    Marco Argenti, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Because some agencies track students’ compliance with vaccine requirements — not actual vaccination status — the true vaccination rate could be lower than reported in those instances.
    Suhail Bhat, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The bond items, if approved by voters, would be a continuation of a portion of the sales tax the city already implements, and no new taxes would be levied.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Historical context suggests that this kind of selloff often represents capitulation rather than continuation.
    Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the studio, niche interests are exchanged for conformity and collective attention to breath and postures—at least on the surface.
    Calin Van Paris, Outside, 30 Sep. 2025
  • However, Thalund and screenwriter Marianne Lentz imbue the set-up with a fresh 2025 perspective while attuning the material to a very particular Danish frequency in a society perpetually triangulating between child-centric educational approaches, permissiveness and conformity.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This growth is a continuance of the surge in oil production resulting from the shale boom that began earlier this century.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The court rejected a continuance filing by Vagovic.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Neither the House nor Senate are scheduled to vote on Thursday, in observance of the Yom Kippur holiday.
    Erik Wasson, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Also in January, post offices across the United States closed for a national day of observance to honor former President Jimmy Carter, who died in December.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The picture created is the result of combining observations taken roughly 20 years apart.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • These observations clearly suggest that AI was indeed used to create these videos.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025

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“Abidance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abidance. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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