Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, closely fitted, as seed-coats to the inclosed nucleus.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
conform .
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The wording of that label conformed with -- in fact, was practically dictated by -- FDA requirements.
unknown title 2009
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The wording of that label conformed with-in fact, was practically dictated by - FDA requirements.
The Corner 2009
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Out of denial, because the information that was reaching him was being massaged for positive effect, or simply because the notion conformed to preconceived ideas nurtured in isolation in the decades before the war, Stalin now assumed that these offensives would reverse the fortunes of his dwindling forces.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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Out of denial, because the information that was reaching him was being massaged for positive effect, or simply because the notion conformed to preconceived ideas nurtured in isolation in the decades before the war, Stalin now assumed that these offensives would reverse the fortunes of his dwindling forces.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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MR. COLLIS'S dogmatic assertions, that the Roman Catholics "conformed" for the twelve years, and that Popes Paul IV. and Pius IV. offered to confirm the Book of Common Prayer if Elizabeth would acknowledge the papal supremacy, are evidently borrowed, word for word, from Dr. Wordsworth's [4] _Theophilus Anglicanus_, cap.vii. p. 219.
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I am sure many, many adults have 'conformed' to the laws in order to ingest MJ.
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I am sure many, many adults have 'conformed' to the laws in order to ingest MJ.
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Gulity?? that's not what I am hearing from the witnesses … anytime anyone is not "conformed" they become guilty …. .read the transcripts, Michael!
Mount Vernon News 2009
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But if the film really is as pretentious and terrible as Benbihy makes it sound, then my hunch is that it would have "conformed" only too well to the kind of film he is going to produce.
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Supposedly we are a conforming nation, but what we have "conformed" to is a life of leisure and excess.
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