complied

past tense of comply

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Verb
  • Sheinbaum, for her part, has acquiesced in many instances to Trump’s requests, almost certainly with the goal of safeguarding Mexico’s relationship with its biggest export market, along with protecting Mexico’s burgeoning apparel industry from competition from Chinese operators.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 28 Aug. 2025
  • That failure is symbolized most starkly in the mute dissolution of his own group, formed to help save Chicago from its pension morass but which instead silently acquiesced in making that threat markedly worse.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania have made deals with the Administration to restore their funding, and other universities have conformed to what the Administration seems to want in order to avoid becoming targets themselves.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Courtesy of the artist and Le Random Bauman joined an existing team conformed by CEO thefunnyguys and CFO/COO Zack Taylor, who head the company’s operations and strategic planning.
    Ana María Caballero, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • To secure approval from the DOJ, HPE consented to divest its Instant On WLAN unit and license Juniper’s Mist AI software.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Both consented to a search of their home, and police reviewed its video surveillance footage.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Arteta later revealed that the Arsenal squad had conducted a vote on who would be this season’s captain, and that Odegaard won ‘by a mile’.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The warplanes recently conducted operational flight testing of AGR-20F live fire at targets over land and water.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Camilla became Queen in 2022 when her husband, King Charles, acceded the throne following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
    Jack Guy, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the end, Frizer was found to have acted in self-defense and officially pardoned by the Queen.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Meyer has also appeared on Designated Survivor (2018), The Fix (2019), and Good Girls (2021), and acted in films including Changeland (2019), Unpregnant (2020), and The Enormity of Life (2021).
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Chargers won the coin-toss, deferred and kicked to the Chiefs.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In a brief exchange with reporters before departing Miami for Mexico City, Rubio deferred questions about the specifics of the strike to the Pentagon.
    Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The classes are highly scripted and, in my opinion, boring.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025
  • In the early episodes, when everyone’s still getting to know each other, are the conversations boring?
    Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
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“Complied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/complied. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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