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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
obey .
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Examples
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The coin obeys all the laws of physics, yet the outcome of the flip is random, in the sense that there's no design to the result.
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Emotional recall obeys the forces that bend the peal of a passing bell and warp the color of distant stars.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Emotional recall obeys the forces that bend the peal of a passing bell and warp the color of distant stars.
Memory and redshift 2009
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Emotional recall obeys the forces that bend the peal of a passing bell and warp the color of distant stars.
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Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified.
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Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified.
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified.
Essays — First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified.
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A flipped coin obeys all of the laws of physics; its motion is entirely deterministic.
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A flipped coin obeys all of the laws of physics; its motion is entirely deterministic.
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