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Noun
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Jumping: Held on the final day of competition, the purpose of the show jumping portion of the three-day event is to demonstrate the horse's energy and obedience after the cross-country test.—
Tim Genske,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025 -
What is more, the actors are in complete obedience to the last line of the play.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2025
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In the early 1900s, there was a rise in Black Nationalist organizations that refused to cower in the face of KKK violence or submit to societal subordination.—
Kimberly Fain,
JSTOR Daily,
5 July 2017
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Now, the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has maintained that the bilateral relationship should be based on cooperation and not subordination, is obliged to treat the issue of migration and drug trafficking with caution.—
Anna Lagos,
WIRED,
24 Jan. 2025
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So what coherent message emerges from these surreal dreams of conformity?—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2025
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What Maryland public school systems need is not the inflexible conformity demanded by such plans.—
Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Apr. 2025
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This budget is not a final submission and anything that is submitted would need the approval of Congress to be implemented.—
Nathaniel Weixel,
The Hill,
17 Apr. 2025
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As part of his tightening grip on power, and his assault on 200-plus years of checks and balances, President Trump has bludgeoned some of the nation’s leading law firms into shameful submission, extracting hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free legal work for his pet causes.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2025
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Small states have risen to power on first-mover advantages, often with the acquiescence or benign neglect of larger states.—
Kurt M. Campbell,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Apr. 2025
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The acquiescence stunned House Democrats, who had voted almost unanimously against the bill earlier in the week and expected Schumer and the Senate Democrats to follow suit.—
Aris Folley,
The Hill,
18 Mar. 2025
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For example, the leader can personally hold the virtues of humility and confidence simultaneously for greater impact.—
Gregory Crawford,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Giving cash as a form of humility Many who work with GiveDirectly see its cash model as a form of humility.—
Erika Page,
Christian Science Monitor,
8 Apr. 2025
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Most Canadians want uncomplicated lives, a desire for calm that can be misinterpreted by louder people as meekness.—
Chris Jones,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2025
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Standing next to a record player in a sports jacket and turtleneck, Kaufman, with a kind of bulging meekness, a glisteningly gleeful timidity, puts the needle on the record.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2025
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When Dane, chief of the Children of Light, swallows his pride and agrees to help the villagers in exchange for Perrin’s surrender at battle’s end, he’s taken by surprise by enemy agents within their midst, led by season one’s minor antagonist, Padan Fain.—
Sean T. Collins,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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Far from proposing lenient surrender terms to exonerate the Confederates, Grant did so in an effort to change their hearts and minds.—
Made by History,
Time,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Teachableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teachableness. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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