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complying

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verb

present participle of comply

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for complying
Adjective
  • Maintaining opportunities, programs and the educational experience is the district’s top priority when evaluating these cuts, Marking said, in addition to staying compliant with the law and contracts with labor partners.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The vehicle is fully compliant with National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) Standards.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Newsom's office previously provided a statement to Fox News Digital, deferring responsibility for the situation to the CIF, CDE and state legislature.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Had Darnold not crumbled in the postseason, re-signing him to a multi-year deal and deferring McCarthy to a three-year development plan would have been reasonable.
    Trevor Squire, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The company is also conducting power-on tests of its first FAA-conforming aircraft.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
  • By County Set by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) each year and based on home values, conforming loan limits are typically used to determine maximum loan amounts for many mortgage types.
    Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • The generals reduced even their limited need for an obedient prime minister.
    Mohammed Hanif, Time, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Since Francoism promoted an image of women as obedient wives and self-sacrificing mothers devoted to the Catholic family model, Republican women were demonized as immoral, dangerous and unworthy of motherhood.
    Zaya Rustamova, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Who exactly is capable of consenting?
    S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The mention of plea negotiations came when Judge Ramon Reyes, who is overseeing the poker case, asked Jones about consenting to stopping the 70-day speedy trial clock — a common occurrence in complex prosecutions.
    John Annese, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • During takeoff and subsonic flight, for example, an ACE can open extra bypass ducts, effectively acting like a turbofan, quieter and efficient.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Outside of acting, Swit was a painter and a vocal animal rights activist.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Yasuda ordered his subordinate, Lieutenant Colonel Tatsusaburo Suzuki, to prepare a report on the feasibility of a uranium project in Japan.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, allowing men but not women to have multiple spouses is clearly unequal and entwined with patriarchal ideology that positions women as subordinate or inferior to men.
    David W. Lawson, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Albania has been on a mission to root out corruption for the past decade, embarking on a widespread vetting process of every judge in the country, and creating specialized anti-corruption bodies to prosecute graft, to improve its chance of acceding to the European Union.
    Tharin Pillay, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • To an extent, the College Board can be forgiven for acceding to student preferences.
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Complying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/complying. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.

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