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• A dictatorship bans things, that do not conform to its ideology, to secure its reign.From the entry ideology
• He's trying to get a conforming loan.From the entry conforming
• A Federate (Application) can be defined as an application that implements or conforms to the HLA standard.2016, Okan Topçu, Umut Durak, Halit Oğuztüzün, Distributed Simulation: A Model Driven Engineering Approach. From the entry federate
• Such matroids are said to conform or coconform to the template.2016, Kevin Grace, Stefan H. M. van Zwam, “Templates for Binary Matroids”, in arXiv. From the entry coconform
• Conforming to Betteridge’s law of headlines, the answer is no – or at least, not yet.2014 February 6, James Temple, “Will Google Translate Let Us Talk to Aliens and Dolphins?: Google’s Peter Norvig Says, Umm, No”, in…. From the entry Betteridge's Law
• Conforming to Betteridge’s law of headlines, the answer is no — or at least, not yet.2014 February 6, James Temple, “Will Google Translate Let Us Talk to Aliens and Dolphins?: Google’s Peter Norvig Says, Umm, No”, in…. From the entry Betteridge's law of headlines
• Loops automatically conform to a project's tempo; one-shots ignore the tempo and maintain a fixed duration.2010, Mary Plummer, Apple Training Series: GarageBand 09, →ISBN. From the entry one-shot
• The CIA's analysts learned to march in lockstep, conforming to conventional wisdom.2007, Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, published 2008, page xv. From the entry lockstep
• “Imagine sprayable batteries, conforming to the shape of a device or an appliance,” Professor Chiang said.2007 March 11, Jason Pontin, “A New Battery Takes Off in a Race to Electric Cars”, in New York Times. From the entry sprayable
• In each of these cases, the values conform to the taxonomic type of the corresponding families.2005, D. Vokrouhlický et al., “Yarkovsky/YORP chronology of asteroid families”, in Icarus, volume 182, number 1, published 2006, →DOI…. From the entry Taiwan
• He gorilla pimped Charlene, made him conform to his wants by beating him.2004, Tony Lindsay, Chasin' It, page 6. From the entry gorilla pimp
• This also conforms to the theory that outrovert people are not having better share of success.1996 May 10, Phil C.J. Lin, “Re: Kansai vs. Kantou?”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet), retrieved 10 Jan 2015. From the entry outrovert
• It conforms with the cabbalic concept of the Oneness of cosmos and God (Echad).1992, James P. Jacobs, Science, faith, echoes of eternity, page 5. From the entry cabbalic
• In legitimate comedy actresses conformed to a Victorian image of coquetry.1983, Chad Evans, “The Road to British Columbia”, in Frontier Theatre: A History of Nineteenth-century Theatrical Entertainment in the…. From the entry endearing
• The poet is not trying to conform to any of the old standards of behavior.1979 December 15, Stephanie Byrd, “An Injection of Spirit”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 21, page 10. From the entry gird
• Continue alternating from the A reel to the B reel as you conform.1974, George Glenn, Super 8 Handbook, page 176. From the entry B-reel
• The choice before man remains what it has always been—conform or perish.1972, Romesh Thapar, “A Disciplining Philosophy of Living”, in Anil Bordia, J[ames] R[obbins] Kidd, J[ames] A. Draper, editors, Adult…. From the entry me tooism
• Its dome-shaped screen is inclined forward slightly to conform with the slope of the auditorium itself.1971, Vysot︠s︡kiĭ, Mikhail Zinovʹevich, Wide-screen cinema and stereophonic sound, page 85. From the entry spacearium
• The microstructures do not appear to conform entirely to either cardhouse or honeycomb structures.1967, Contributions in Oceanography - Issues 319-361, page 375. From the entry cardhouse
• The five brooms have independent adjustments to conform, to curvatives in the road.1925, Municipal Journal and Public Works - Volume 56, page 511. From the entry curvative
• The Japanese community in Vladivostok lived a life that preserved their traditional culture but also conformed to the local cultural diversity.2023, Kumi Tateoka, “Vladivostok as а Meeting Point between West and East at the Beginning of the 20th Century (Around Years of Siberian…. From the entry pryanik
• The "hipster effect," as explained by Brandeis University researchers, goes like this: Those in an anti-conformist population still conform to themselves.2019 March 11, Josh Hafner, “All hipsters look alike? Man claims article's 'hipster' photo is him, only to be mistaken”, in USA Today…. From the entry Brandeis
• An inanimate transitive subject can be made to conform to the restriction by adding a delineator to it.2018, András Bárány, Person, Case, and Agreement, page 135. From the entry delineator
• Although FBS is indispensable in biomedical research, FBS-free cryomedia would benefit researchers by conforming to good laboratory practices.2015 July 2, Varma VP, Devi L, Venna NK, Murthy CLN, Idris MM, Goel S, “Ocular Fluid As a Replacement for Serum in Cell Cryopreservation…. From the entry cryomedia
• Yes, there are macaroni noodles, and there is also cheese—but it definitely doesn’t conform to usual notions of mac and cheese.2013, Allison Arevalo, Erin Wade, The Mac + Cheese Cookbook: 50 Simple Recipes from Homeroom, America’s Favorite Mac and Cheese…. From the entry mac and cheesy
• In the second statement the value 85.1 is autoboxed in order to conform to the type of Double.2006, David D. Riley, The object of Java, page 484. From the entry autoboxed
• In this manner the speech ways of this social class conformed to those of London to a considerable extent.2006, Geoffrey Forward, Pro Speech, page 39. From the entry speech way
• Second, the standard domain-specific notation you're recreating in your Perl class must conform to the Perlish precedences and associativities.2005, Damian Conway, Perl Best Practices. From the entry Perlish
• Eating meat does not conform to God's original intention, and resorting to carnivorism merely accentuates an unattractive part of human nature.2004, Mark H Bernstein, Without A Tear, University of Illinois, published 2004, page 67. From the entry accentuate
• Are buildings that conform to a blueprint twinnable?2004, Chat-Yin Ho, Pham Huu Tiep, Finite Groups 2003: Proceedings of the Gainesville Conference on Finite Groups. From the entry twinnable
• To Herriot the Mont-de-Piété was "a museum" that needed replacement by an institution that "conforms to modern progress."2003, Timothy B. Smith, Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry Mont-de-Piété
• Just which buildings survived was partly determined by which ones conformed to Taiwan’s sometimes laxly enforced construction codes.1999 October 4, Jeffrey Kluger, “Tears and Trembling”, in Time. From the entry laxly
• A perfect excuse to hair the heroes of the current decade, and thus conform to everyone else and their current trends!1996 June 30, Alexander Gitlin, “Your first Dp^([sic – meaning Deep Purple]) album & when”, in alt.music.deep-purple (Usenet), archived…. From the entry no cigar
• Organo-soluble thermosettable finishes employing aminoplasts conform generally to the pigment-vehicle-volatile relationships established for industrial alkyd or related finishes.1968, Technology of paints, varnishes, and lacquers, page 60. From the entry thermosettable
• Afterwards the bridge abutments are built up to the new height, and the approaches re-formed to conform with the bridge.1958 July, “Bridge Reconstruction for L.M.R. Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 488. From the entry re-form
• God purposed from eternity that those whom he foreapproved should be conformed to the image of his Son.1958, Boyce W. Blackwelder, Light from the Greek New Testament. From the entry foreapprove
• Our correspondents are urged to cultivate a good medium-brow vocabulary, to conform to the taste of a medium-brow editor.1929, The Phi Gamma Delta - Volume 51, Issue 6, page 556. From the entry medium-brow
• The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary.1906, Gelett Burgess, Are You a Bromide?. From the entry arbitrary

Meaning of conform

1. verb To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.
2. verb To change to more closely match typical characteristics or behavior.
3. verb To be as required or recommended by a specification, regulation, or policy.

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Questions about conform in a sentence

How do you use conform in a sentence?

Conform is used as a verb. For example: “A dictatorship bans things, that do not conform to its ideology, to secure its reign.”

What is a short sentence with conform?

“He's trying to get a conforming loan.”

What does conform mean?

Conform means to adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.