obeys

present tense third-person singular of obey

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Recent Examples of obeys Wells Fargo is a stock that slavishly obeys The Street's outlook for earnings. Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025 With analog simulators, physicists map a quantum system of interest onto an analogous system — one that obeys equations of the same form but is easier to configure and observe in a lab. Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obeys
follows
Verb
  • Horimiya follows two high school teens, popular girl Hori and gloomy Miyamura, who grow close after agreeing to keep their home lives a secret from their peers.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The follow-up to the uproarious La Dolce Vita, Fellini’s fantastical movie within a movie follows a film director who suffers a creative block during the production of his newest work.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025

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