as in docile
readily giving in to the command or authority of another
that boy is so obedient that he does everything the first time he is asked
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Recent Examples of obedient
Investors and businesses have long entrusted financial regulators to follow their Congressional mandates to remain independent and not obedient to White House directives.
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John Kostyack, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Future research directions include scaling up and down GOAT’s design to accommodate other payloads and developing better algorithms to help take advantage of the special characteristics of morphing, obedient robots.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 Feb. 2025
The charges were based on an argument that the entourage of managers and aides who helped Kelly meet girls — and keep them obedient and quiet — amounted to a criminal enterprise.
—Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
The obedient, scared little boy from el campo was gone.
—Aquilino Gonell, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2025
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John Kostyack, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Future research directions include scaling up and down GOAT’s design to accommodate other payloads and developing better algorithms to help take advantage of the special characteristics of morphing, obedient robots.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 Feb. 2025
The charges were based on an argument that the entourage of managers and aides who helped Kelly meet girls — and keep them obedient and quiet — amounted to a criminal enterprise.
—Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
The obedient, scared little boy from el campo was gone.
—Aquilino Gonell, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obedient
Adjective
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Jazz is much more docile and laid back, whereas Jax is high energy and was always the Alpha when playing with Jazz.—
Arick Wierson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Apr. 2025
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Indeed, the title of the series emphasizes how her approach invokes a broader, global discourse about the female body as a container of the concepts of the domestic, the sexualized, and the docile.—
María Elena Ortiz,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Your value lies in being pretty, silent, submissive and unfailingly supportive of men.—
Marie Bostwick,
People.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Trump was demanding deference from Zelenskyy to show his inferior and submissive position as a recipient of U.S. aid and military support.—
Shannon Bow O'Brien,
The Conversation,
25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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That’s because police have used the state of exception to sweep up street vendors, who’ve been much more compliant with eviction notices ever since.—
Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
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This can be done by gathering data that is 100% compliant and cleansing data regularly.—
Rob Sanchez,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Advertisers can use biddable automation to buy ads in real-time against live programming, which is especially critical for live sports.—
Sara Fischer,
Axios,
8 Apr. 2025
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Advertisers can use biddable automation to buy ads in real-time against live programming, which is especially critical for live sports.—
Sara Fischer,
Axios,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Simmons' initial reaction to the insult was a bit more restrained than his typical unfiltered comments.—
Marina Watts,
People.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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This year, the prestigious but far more restrained perpetual calendar was the complication of choice.—
Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In particular, embodiments describe protective cover layer structures that may be implemented in curved, flexible, conformable and foldable display modules, and in particular with curved, flexible, conformable and foldable display panels.—
Chris Smith,
BGR,
6 Apr. 2021
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Is this suit more conformable than the costume from Revenge of the Sith?—
Ryan Parker,
The Hollywood Reporter,
13 June 2022
Adjective
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Gabriel Navarro and two colleagues turned one of group theory’s biggest open conjectures into a tractable problem.—
Leila Sloman,
WIRED,
23 Mar. 2025
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Medical researchers have made these images tractable for CNNs by breaking them up into much smaller fragments—square tiles, for example.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 Aug. 2021
Adjective
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As such, the NFL seems to be amenable to taking a long look at shifting more games—and, perhaps, complete TV packages—to the streaming arrivistes.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Yet that rhetoric is something that Americans may be amenable to.—
Henry Gass,
Christian Science Monitor,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Obedient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obedient. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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