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complied

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past tense of comply

as in acquiesced

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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
For the past five years, Ella had only acquiesced to seeing them on Easter and Christmas Eve, which for an Italian-American family was equivalent to a declaration of war.

— Danielle Parker, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

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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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The genetic genealogy technique involves taking crime scene evidence to develop a profile that is used to search consumer DNA databases for genetic relatives who consented to assist law enforcement.

— Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
And then another concession came late Sunday, when Republicans said Trump consented to a tougher ethics proposal that several key senators had demanded.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of consented

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The new estimates update older research to investigate cancer and infections that was conducted in 2018.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2026
Early interactions were conducted without rigid boundary definitions, which implicitly permitted her to adopt the primary identity.

— Terry Oroszi, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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When Queen Elizabeth acceded to the throne in 1952 upon the death of her father, King George VI, Winston Churchill was the British prime minister.

— Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
In 1910, following the death of his father, King Edward VII, King George V acceded to the throne and Mary became Queen.

— Natasha Leake, Vanity Fair, 2 June 2026

Definition of acceded

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And while lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have questioned their legality, Republicans — who currently control both the House and the Senate — have not acted.

— Alayna Treene, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026
That same encouragement carried over to the design of Blackwood’s home, too, where Haughton acted as the contractor.

— Camille Okhio, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2026

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The official causes of death for both were deferred, pending further investigation.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
That mandatory inclusion cannot be deferred again, but gain from a separate inclusion event may qualify for a new deferral if timely reinvested.

— Fernando Jimenez, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026

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Powerful cutters have whirred to life on a giant drill that will begin boring a new train tunnel under the Hudson River connecting Manhattan to New Jersey.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
The twin tubes, bored at a rate of roughly 30 feet per day, will take about a year to dig.

— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026

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