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  • McCandless didn't conform particularly well to the bush-casualty stereotype.  (source)
    conform = fit in
  • Though under great pressure to conform to a culture of brutality, a few guards refused to participate in the violence.  (source)
    conform = comply (fit in)
  • This Laboratory Conforms to USG P4/EK3 Genetic Protocols  (source)
    Conforms = meets the standards
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  • Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity.  (source)
    conformity = to fit in (comply with customary behavior)
  • If you didn't conform, you might be labeled "not cool."  (source)
    conform = comply or fit in with what is "normal"
  • If every action in the universe that we thought was random actually conformed to a rational pattern, Dad said, that implied the existence of a divine creator, and he was beginning to rethink his atheistic creed.  (source)
    conformed = fit into
  • I tie my shoes in a hurry, pull on a jacket, and sprint out of the room, catching up to the line of initiates quickly, conforming my pace to theirs.  (source)
    conforming = fitting
  • Lawrence's people keep refusing to behave, to submit to convention, to act in a way that conforms to expectations, even expectations of other nonconformists.  (source)
    conforms = complies or fits in
  • When I answered, "I don't," they looked at me uncomfortably, as though they had just stumbled upon something unspeakably subversive going on in well-ordered, homogeneous, conformist Boca Raton.†  (source)
    conformist = someone who thinks and acts like others in a group
  • We speak conformably to the rumor which we have heard.†  (source)
  • When they are attributed to Men, they signifie Conformity, or Inconformity of Manners, to Reason.†  (source)
    Inconformity = not compliance, fitting in, or being similar to what is normal
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconformity means not and reverses the meaning of conformity. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
  • The stubborn arms (by Jove's command disposed) Conform'd spontaneous, and around him closed: Fill'd with the god, enlarged his members grew, Through all his veins a sudden vigour flew, The blood in brisker tides began to roll, And Mars himself came rushing on his soul.†  (source)
    Conform'd = complied, fit in, or was similar to what is normal
  • There are conformists and freethinkers.†  (source)
    conformists = people who think and act in compliance with group norms
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