disobeys

present tense third-person singular of disobey

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Verb
  • Tomás forbids it, but Paja, in the style of rebellious teens and younger siblings everywhere, ignores him.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
  • If management ignores negative behavior, team members become frustrated and the work environment is destabilized, Price warns.
    Sally Percy, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • In September of that year, the ACLU of Indiana sued the state on behalf of five anonymous Hoosiers and the group Hoosier Jews for Choice, arguing the ban violates the state's 2015 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA.
    Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Those confidentiality provisions are enforceable by contract, meaning a party that violates them can be sued for breach of contract and potentially face large monetary damages.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The present agreement between Ethiopia and Somaliland directly defies the realization of these goals.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Its growth defies a slump that’s seeing foreign beauty giants, from L’Oreal SA to Shiseido, struggle with disappointing sales in China as increasingly frugal shoppers turn to cheaper local upstarts.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Asia, 10 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The group leading the rebellion, however, is Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) whose leader Abu Muhammad Al Jolani is a former al Qaeda fighter with an Islamist ideology that opposes Israel.
    Mostafa Salem, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Ankara wants to control northern Syria and expel the Kurds, a solution that Moscow opposes, even though the Kurds are allies of the United States.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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