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as in to acquiesce
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Recent Examples of comply
The Kansas Court of Appeals earlier this month reversed a district court injunction that prevented the state revenue department from complying with requests to change residents’ genders on their identification forms.
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Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2025
But the Supreme Court’s ruling means that those cases will now return to those lower courts, where those judges will have to decide how to tailor their orders to comply with the high court ruling, Barrett’s opinion said.
—Nik Popli, Time, 27 June 2025
The new process will apply to those who enter the U.S. illegally, ignore final orders of removal, and those in the U.S. illegally who do not comply with a judge’s voluntary departure order.
—Luke Barr, ABC News, 27 June 2025
The law sets fines of $10,000 a day for not complying with the age-verification mandate (plus up to $250,000 for each time a minor gains access) and $10,000 for each case of retaining somebody's identifying data.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 27 June 2025
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Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2025
But the Supreme Court’s ruling means that those cases will now return to those lower courts, where those judges will have to decide how to tailor their orders to comply with the high court ruling, Barrett’s opinion said.
—Nik Popli, Time, 27 June 2025
The new process will apply to those who enter the U.S. illegally, ignore final orders of removal, and those in the U.S. illegally who do not comply with a judge’s voluntary departure order.
—Luke Barr, ABC News, 27 June 2025
The law sets fines of $10,000 a day for not complying with the age-verification mandate (plus up to $250,000 for each time a minor gains access) and $10,000 for each case of retaining somebody's identifying data.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comply
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Standing in the way of this dream were the rules of feminine behavior they had been taught to live by, the punishing standards of beauty they were held to, and men’s wholesale refusal to acquiesce to even the most minor of feminist demands.—
Alice Bolin
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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The Four Circuit panel rebuked Bell’s reasoning, describing as novel and unsupported that a court could compel NASCAR to acquiesce to contractual demands by 23XI and Front Row.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
20 June 2025
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On sale for $1,799 PlushBeds Botanical Bliss Organic Latex Mattress offers a combination of resilient support and conforming pressure relief.—
Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
27 June 2025
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Yet this efficiency revolution carries an uncomfortable irony: these same systems may systematically exclude unconventional candidates who don't conform to algorithmic patterns, potentially filtering out the very innovators and disruptors that drive organizational breakthroughs.—
Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Nearly three dozen countries have not acceded to it, including some key current and past producers and users of land mines such as the United States, China, India, Pakistan, South Korea and Russia.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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The United Kingdom has acceded to the trade pact and several other major economies, including China, South Korea, Indonesia, and Taiwan, have expressed interest in joining.—
Malcolm Turnbull,
Foreign Affairs,
6 June 2025
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Service businesses, however, cannot stockpile labor or defer rising operational costs, forcing them to adjust prices.—
Kara Dennison,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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The trend reached its apex with Ohtani, who agreed to defer 98 percent of his windfall until after his playing contract ends; the team is paying him just $2 million per season while using his celebrity to rake in untold millions through new sponsorships with Japanese companies.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
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Then again, the Justices’ unease about whether children and adolescents can genuinely consent to life-altering treatments would be lacking in the case of adults.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
20 June 2025
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With a filing in State Bar Court on Tuesday, Aaron Spolin pleaded no contest to misconduct involving eight clients, all current or former California prisoners, and consented to the stripping of his law license.—
Harriet Ryan,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2025
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Following the Joint Conference Committee, the 21% corporate income tax rate was accepted and passed by the House and the Senate.—
Nathan Goldman,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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No liability is accepted by Fairlead Strategies, its officers, employees, affiliates, or partners for any losses that may arise from any use of the information contained herein.—
Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
30 June 2025
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If this newsletter isn't already getting conveniently delivered to your inbox, click here to subscribe.—
Jim Reineking,
USA Today,
24 June 2025
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In data shared exclusively with Fortune, Amazon revealed the items which were purchased—in their millions—most frequently by subscribing customers.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
21 June 2025
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“Comply.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comply. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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