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complied

verb

past tense of comply

as in acquiesced

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So the showrunner of TV’s number one comedy acquiesced and, in 1995, bought a green Porsche 911 coupe.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2026
As the Tingleys alternately acquiesced to and resisted Vista Grande's insistence on medication, administrators started calling 911 after altercations, according to ambulance and police dispatch records.

— Jordan Rau, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of acquiesced

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As one of the three colorways that conformed with the NBA’s uniform regulations, the sneaker is rendered primarily in white.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026
That dwarfed the offerings of Morocco, which had no existing stadiums that conformed to tournament specifications and would need to spend upwards of $15 billion to prepare for a World Cup.

— Kevin Baxter Follow June 7, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026

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James told investigators that Laura Hamilton was aware and consented to that relationship with her husband, which Laura Hamilton later disputed.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 9 Oct. 2026
Owners consented to donating brain samples from their old dogs for this study.

— Julie Moreno, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2026

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Just 39% of Americans say AI has a positive impact on society, compared with 44% who believe its impact is negative, according to a national survey conducted this month by my company, Outward Intelligence.

— Will Johnson, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
The experiment, conducted by computer scientists at Binghamton University in New York, exposed a security weakness in large language models (LLMs) used to plan robotic actions.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026

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Kyiv briefly acceded to the request, but has since resumed attacks — and Russia has continued to pound Ukraine’s energy infrastructure throughout the week.

— Helen Regan, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Israel’s prime minister, who only reluctantly acceded to Trump’s 2025 Gaza cease-fire, has managed to continue waging war in Gaza without incurring significant costs.

— KHALED ELGINDY, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026

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For Rush, a republic that put citizens to death still acted like a monarchy, treating citizens’ lives as its own to dispose of.

— Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026
The Justice Department invoked national security only in court filings days after the White House acted against the reporters.

— David Folkenflik, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026

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Highlands has proposed repaying the state through deductions from future state funding, but the bankruptcy court deferred a decision on that proposal until the final hearing in November.

— Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026
The superstar who deferred most of his record 10-year, $700-million salary so as to enable — to obligate — the Dodgers to build a championship roster around him reached base in three of his four plate appearances Wednesday.

— Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

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Hundreds of pinprick holes had been bored into the metal undercarriage, and each one had to be deburred by hand.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Tegan & Sara’s painfully catchy tune for the 2014 movie relies on bouncing dance beats and repetition to bore its way straight into your brain.

— Stephanie Ganz Published, Parents, 18 Oct. 2026

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