adhered

past tense of adhere
as in clung
to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion everyone started calling her "Cookie" when she was little and the name adhered

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Recent Examples of adhered Participants adhered well, spending 73 percent of the study in ketosis. Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Toronto clung on to a 2-1 lead.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The companies and funds that act with courage now will be remembered as bold and pioneering, versus as a group that clung to short-term safety.
    Melissa Jun Rowley, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • Investors and economists are stuck looking to other sources of data for information about the economy.
    John Towfighi, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In the meantime, borrowers stuck in the backlog may not be making progress toward loan forgiveness, either under the terms of an IDR plan or through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
    Annie Nova, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Adhered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adhered. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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