peer pressure
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- noun Pressure from one's peers to behave in a manner similar or acceptable to them.
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- He believed peer pressure worked better and created greater harmony in the community. — EQMM, July2006
- Maybe it was my susceptibility to peer pressure again, but I enjoyed fitting in The headlights and the motor cut off. — Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 2002
- "I was picturing our police chief teaching ten-year-olds how to handle peer pressure Boggles the mind," Linda agreed. — Janice Kay Johnson - The Family Next Door
- She kept her Blahniks but wore no lipstick, caving in to peer pressure now that she had peers. — CourtingTrouble
- His contacts with honorable men had left the word sullied with connotations of inflated self-esteem, wounded pride, maniacal pursuit of glory, hypersensitivity to imagined affronts, and irresistible peer pressure leading to blood and mayhem, usually over a trifle forgotten by the time the principals met to flail away at one another or lay waste great stretches of inoffensive landscape and murder innocent animals and peasants by the score. — FSF,July2005
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