obeying

present participle of obey

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of obeying While current power brokers haven’t scrapped movies over their content, yet, Hollywood has a recent history of companies obeying in advance by shelving projects until the tensions cool. Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025 It was intended simply to verify that a nonviolent offender was obeying curfew hours. Robert S. Gable, IEEE Spectrum, 20 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obeying
Verb
  • In four days, their season was over following a Wild Card Series loss to the New York Yankees, a series where their youth and inexperience showed.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The series’ first season, chronicling the crimes of Milwaukee serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, prompted a conversation about the exploitation of Black and disabled people’s stories for entertainment, while the season following the Menendez Brothers led to a real-world reconsidering of their guilt.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • By observing how these everyday devices communicate, attackers can infer information about people in the environment without installing or accessing any additional equipment, making the method far easier to deploy and potentially more widespread.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2025
  • That’s why an observing program like COSMOS-Web, the largest, widest-field JWST observing program to date, is so important.
    Big Think, Big Think, 11 Oct. 2025

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“Obeying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obeying. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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