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Noun
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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 -
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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More than once, that passivity slipped into calamity.—
Laurie Whitwell,
The Athletic,
23 Feb. 2025
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Or does so only briefly in the ambiguous ending, when Sofia throws off the last vestiges of her passivity and forces her recalcitrant mother into a reckoning with her condition.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Feb. 2025
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Instead, the new Trump administration is engineering what some feel could be described only as ideological obedience.—
Karen Hao,
The Atlantic,
22 Feb. 2025
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Mixed breeds are also welcome at the agility and obedience contests being held at the Javits Convention Center in Manhattan.—
Jorge L. Ortiz,
USA TODAY,
12 Feb. 2025
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Their litigations essentially mirrored the same set of issues: Whether the ACC misused media rights, the appropriate penalty or fee (or both) a school should face for exiting the ACC and compliance requirements for member schools.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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What Happens Next The extent to which sanction compliance will remain on the U.S. political agenda is in question as geopolitical relations shift.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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Whether the current American president has become a king, particularly after the sweeping grant of immunity in 2024 by the Supreme Court and the seeming acquiescence by Congress to Trump’s latest directives, remains up for debate.—
Claire B. Wofford,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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Empowered by this legislative acquiescence, Trump has now decided to put a freeze on all federal aid that does not fit with his agenda.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Conformism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conformism. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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