to abide by
/ɐbˈaɪd bˈaɪ/
verbto accept a rule, decision, or recommendation without objection
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1. But your two-year-old force of nature was only abiding by the second law of thermodynamics.
2. - Of course our celebrities are all abiding by their local stay at home orders.
3. Sometimes the Continental Army abided by predictable military conventions.
4. They abided by the UN.
5. Not abide by the rules.
adherence
/ədˈhɪɹəns/
nounthe fact of complying with a command, order, impulse, etc. or following someone's rules and beliefs
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1. And adherence to this is notoriously very poor.
2. And adherence to this is notoriously very poor.
3. Adherence to Ramadan will provide strength and spiritual growth for the upcoming year.
4. Adherence to lifestyle modifications.
5. That's called "adherence."
to adhere to
/ɐdhˈɪɹ tuː/
verbto keep following a certain regulation, belief, or agreement
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1. Realtors must adhere to a code of ethics.
2. Only a thin layer of flour will adhere to the moist chicken.
3. The law is strictly adhered to.
4. Adhere to our Comfort Protocol. REST.
5. And some states adhere to the traditional concept of an absentee ballot.
age limit
/ˈeɪdʒ lˈɪmɪt/
nouna rule that prevents people of certain age from doing specific activities
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1. So there's no age limit to weightlifting or bodybuilding.
2. But so, too, there's obviously an age limit.
3. In fact, there's no age limit for study.
4. There will also be an age limit for future presidents.
5. There is no age limit when it comes to GERD.
application
/ˌæpɫəˈkeɪʃən/
nounthe act of putting something to work
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1. Applications only start with zero.
2. Wisdom is application.
3. Application is a two-step process.
4. - Another way is applications.
5. Application has four syllables.
to be to do
/biː tə dˈuː/
phraseused to express necessity or obligation
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1. I think that the riskiest thing would be to do something flat, generic because that I know it doesn't work.
2. But the longer we wait, the harder it's going to be to do a comeback victory.
3. We think the most prudent thing they could do here would be to do another equity offering, because it's not clear how long this downturn would last.
4. Now, if you do have an excessive sleep debt and you really need to pay that back on the weekends, the best way without interrupting your circadian rhythm would be to do that with a nap in the afternoon because that's not gonna change your body's physiological circadian rhythm.
5. The proper way of striking would be to do fluid strikes, whether you're doing it with a long blade, a stick, a short blade.
to bend / stretch the rules
/bˈɛnd stɹˈɛtʃ ðə ɹˈuːlz/
phraseto do something that is not strictly according to rules, often by making exceptions
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1. But I will bend the rules a little bit if it helps you out because I want to be as helpful as possible.
2. A bizarre thing so extreme, that it bends the rules of the universe and could infect and destroy everything it comes into contact with-- --or
3. Humor can be a healthy way to react to hypothetical and distant threats, and it can also be a social cue that tells people that we’re okay with bending the rules when it comes to a norm.
4. Just be angry enough and make sure you're white when you're doing it, and someone will find a way to bend the rules to make that OK.
5. We'll explain these cards as they come up, but each of them let's the player bend the rules in some way.
binding
/ˈbaɪndɪŋ/
adjectivelegally impossible to avoid and must be obeyed
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1. I'll undo the binding.
2. The binding of Osiris and his revival is a promise to Egyptians of eternal life.
3. Anyhow, the binding of the viral RNA to these DNA probes creates a change in the electrical charge of the molecules.
4. And this sticker in Germany is legally binding.
5. The process is called protein-ligand binding.
to bring sth into force
/bɹˈɪŋ ˌɛstˌiːˈeɪtʃ ˌɪntʊ fˈoːɹs/
phraseto start to use or implement a new law, rule, etc.
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bylaw
/ˈbaɪˌɫɔ/
nouna set of rules or directives made and maintained by an authority, especially in order to regulate conduct
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1. Bylaws are all rather standard and are normally included with the incorporation, but we have a template you can download for reference.
2. As it's evolved in modern times, the corporation has a charter or bylaws.
3. We want votes on changing the bylaws.
4. We often use a term called bylaws.
5. And finally, any time that municipal bylaws prohibit you from doing a U-turn.
to bypass
/ˈbaɪˌpæs/
verbto circumvent or avoid something, especially cleverly or illegally
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1. Dinosaurs totally bypassed that problem.
2. We bypass their clogged arteries.
3. They bypass the record company.
4. - Removal or embolization of vascular malformations - Bypassing the problematic artery
5. - Do a bypass.
to circumvent
/ˌsɝkəmˈvɛnt/
verbto come up with a way to a go around a rule or limitation, especially cleverly or illegally
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1. We are circumventing all of this portion of the stomach and the beginning portion of the small intestine.
2. Speaking of circumvention, you can't circumvent this message from our sponsor.
3. Next we had circumvent.
4. I circumvented the system.
5. We're sort of circumventing evolutionary programs that guide our behavior.
circumvention
/ˌsɝkəmˈvɛntʃən/
nounthe act of evading something by going around it, especially in a clever or illegal way
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1. I think in the near term, we need to keep circumvention legal, and keep net neutrality.
2. Speaking of circumvention, you can't circumvent this message from our sponsor.
3. -This person says they heard from multiple U.S. officials that they were deeply concerned by what they viewed as Mr. Giuliani's circumvention of national security decision making processes to engage with Ukrainian officials and relay messages back and forth between Ukraine and the president.
4. Then you got medical tourism for things that are legal in the destination country, but not the home country-- what I sometimes call circumvention tourism.
compelling
/kəmˈpɛɫɪŋ/
adjectivehaving a strong and convincing power that grabs attention and makes people want to be involved or believe
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1. The seed dispersal argument is compelling.
2. The helicopter is compelling.
3. The game was strangely compelling.
4. The stories are incredibly compelling.
5. The 1998 testimony is compelling.
compliance
/kəmˈpɫaɪəns/
nounthe act of following rules or regulations
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1. The second part of the story is compliance with medication.
2. Compliance becomes very simple.
3. Compliance is hugely important.
4. But PCI compliance.
5. The Chief Rabbi checks production for compliance.
compliant
/kəmˈpɫaɪənt/
adjectivewillingly obeying rules or doing what other people demand
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1. Their CM6 enterprise NVME SSDs are PC express 4.0 and NVME 1.4 compliant.
2. I'm compliant.
3. If so, then they're compliant.
4. - She's so compliant.
5. My knees were completely compliant.
compulsory
/kəmˈpəɫsɝi/
adjectiveforced to be done by law or authority
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1. Oxygen is compulsory.
2. ID card is compulsory.
3. So, the outdoor life was compulsory.
4. This course is compulsory.
5. A second plague measure was compulsory burial.
condition
/kənˈdɪʃən/
nouna rule or term that must be met to reach an agreement or make something possible
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1. Conditions were dismal.
2. Conditions were worse.
3. Today's word is conditions.
4. That conditions its spending.
5. Conditions are ideal for these birds of prey.
conformance
/kənˈfɔɹməns/
nounthe act of following or obeying the rules of something particular
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1. So certainly what we've learned from working in the demo schools is that if people take actions that are in conformance with the values of a trauma sensitive school, it kind of holds them in line.
to contravene
/ˈkɑntɹəˌvin/
verb(of rues and laws) to deny or refuse to abide by
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1. What will happen will simply be that the United States will contravene an a U.N. Security Council resolution, and the rest of the world will stick to it.
2. When he tries to take the things into his own hands, and in the process, to contravene the will of God, only terrible things can happen to him.
3. But it does prevent new Catholic schools opening, because the Catholic Church believes it contravenes its own rules for a Catholic bishop not to prioritise the admission of Catholic pupils.
4. For example, it would be deeply problematic to develop technologies that contravene consent protocols that infringe on people's personal space in ways that they haven't consented to.
5. The company says HKmap.live contravened its guidelines and broke Hong Kong law.
contravention
/ˌkɑntɹəˈvɛntʃən/
nounrefusal to conform with a law or rule
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1. This increased presence of these officers is something that, you know, not only chills individuals right to protest and makes them more afraid, but it's just not contravention overall feel of safety in the community.
2. And this was a situation where the workforce was going on strike all the time, what were called wildcat strikes in contravention of the contract.
3. And the office that had produced those memos that had said the president can act even in contravention of statutes in waging war was an office that I was now working in, and was confronting a lot of those same questions.
4. And the activity that we've seen by the Palestinian Authority has actually emptied those accords of all content, because they have, without negotiation, illegally, and in contravention of the Oslo Accords, built without building permits and without any planning.
5. You will be rewarded for your service and contravention of justice.
controlled
/kənˈtɹoʊɫd/
adjectiveconstrained or managed by the law
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1. We’ve made controlled fusion reactions before, but it takes more energy to start and control them than the fusion itself provides.
2. Remember, the control marking can be the word Controlled or CUI.
3. Dunno, it's just so controlled.
4. Some of which are randomized controlled trials
5. But if someone is composed they remain calm, they remain controlled.
default
/dɪˈfɔɫt/
nouna failure to fulfill official demands and obligations especially ones concerning financial matters
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1. Use the defaults.
2. They defaulted.
3. So by default, Freckles wins this round.
4. By default, this look highlights your eyes.
5. The busy bandwagon defaults to endless tasks, the infinity pools defaults to endless distraction.
to defy
/dɪˈfaɪ/
verbto refuse to respect a person of authority or to observe a law, rule, etc.
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1. But, internally, Hamzah's defenders defied the government.
2. The dating years defy such views.
3. Defy the norm!
4. However, the student protesters this year defy those colour codes.
5. Our hair defies gravity without any products.
to deregulate
/diˈɹɛɡjəɫeɪt/
verbthe act or process of removing official rules, directives, or restrictions
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1. Private industry took hold of the economy, the financial industry was deregulated, and Iceland’s banks came to hold hundreds of billions of dollars in assets.
2. And then that was deregulated first under Jimmy Carter, or at least the airlines were.
3. They massively deregulated energy, pulling out of the Paris Accord, for example.
4. Each of them deregulates a different part of the system.
5. The city of London has been many things - Roman trading outpost, financier to the British empire and deregulated yuppie playground.
deregulation
/diˌɹɛɡjəˈɫeɪʃən/
nounthe act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations)
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1. It doesn't mean deregulation.
2. Deregulation is creating volatility around the world, globalizing economic crises, as well as global health pandemics like HIV/AIDS.
3. You could call trucking deregulation of the Carter administration deregulation.
4. But overzealous deregulation could trigger the third scenario.
5. Now, deregulation also brought back rogue economics.
deregulatory
/diˈɹɛɡjəɫəˌtɔɹi/
adjectiverelating to the removal or reduction of governmental power or regulations from an industry, commodity, etc.
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1. And part of it is that the government deregulatory forces allowed them to merge and form these huge conglomerates such as Bank of America.
2. So there was a certain, there was a backlash against the deregulatory agenda of the early post Cold War period.
3. So in part this was all a component of a broader deregulatory shift--
4. The French Revolution had regulatory or deregulatory effects.
5. So it's deregulatory, that means the state no longer has a monopoly on lotteries and La Farge can run his lottery as part of this plan.
to comply
/kəmˈpɫaɪ/
verbto follow a regulation or obey an order or meet someone's request
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1. I'm willing to comply with social norms.
2. I comply.
3. And the children comply.
4. Complying with the homestead law.
5. Every country complied, save for Portugal.
to suppose
/səˈpoʊz/
verbto be required to do something, especially because of a rule, agreement, tradition, etc.
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1. I suppose the inconvenience down there.
2. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness.
3. I suppose the ultimate sense of fulfillment.
4. Suppose a current flows for a short time.
5. I suppose.
derogation
/dˌɛɹəɡˈeɪʃən/
nounthe partial abolishment of a law or restriction; an occasion in which a law or rule can be ignored or circumvented
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1. And so even despite the seeming derogation of the very thing that he purports to be celebrating in books like The Principles of Literary Criticism, Richards does hold on to an extraordinarily important feeling for the mission of poetry to harmonize conflicting needs.
2. We don't believe that the case depends on the fact that it's political speech, but it's true that those who speak on political issues should expect a little bit more derogation and a little more criticism than others.
3. But just being able to think about that, that is is not in derogation of the seriousness of your commitment to something to nonetheless be decent and appreciate and have fun with the people who you disagree with.
4. There has to be something self-wounding here in this derogation of music, and I don't care that it's fallen music.
non-compliant
/nˌɑːnkəmplˈaɪənt/
adjectiverefusing to follow a law or rule
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1. People with non-compliant driver's licenses basically can only drive with it.
2. So, just wanted to ask for the top non-compliant controls.
3. - Plenty of non-compliant diabetics don't.
4. - Wait, non-compliant diabetics do get treated.
5. And I will also leave to the Department of Defense the nature and work that they're doing on systems that will ultimately, potentially be non-compliant.
to break in
/bɹˈeɪk ˈɪn/
verbto enter someone's property by force and without their consent, particularly to steal something
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1. This pan is pretty well broken in.
2. Downstairs in the basement, the doctor is breaking in.
3. The scandal broke in 1875.
4. This scandal too broke in 1873.
5. That one broke in half.