Example Sentences

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One part of the mandate is to determine if dioceses are conforming to a 2019 papal directive ordering “public, stable and easily accessible systems for submission” of reports of sexual abuse.

From Reuters • Apr. 29, 2022

I share his undogmatic view of dramatic lengths, but too often it seems that playwrights are conforming to a format that is not in the service of their own storytelling.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2017

What I’ve been trying to do is demonstrate that emoji are conforming to the same principles of communication that underpin the spoken language.

From The Guardian • Nov. 17, 2015

Just as a plant keeps on conforming to its environment, so our beliefs and ideals are conforming to our new social conditions and discoveries.

From Another Sheaf by Galsworthy, John

Oh," said I to myself, "these are the people of the ruts; they go that way because others have gone; they are conforming.

From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Goldman, Emma