complied

past tense of comply

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for complied
Verb
  • India’s ministries for environment protection and tribal welfare have already acquiesced to the project.
    M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Sheinbaum, for her part, has acquiesced in many instances to Trump’s requests, almost certainly with the goal of safeguarding Mexico’s relationship with its biggest export market, along with protecting Mexico’s burgeoning apparel industry from competition from Chinese operators.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The famous Stanford Prison Experiment by Zimbardo revealed how quickly people conformed to roles of power or submission, often at the expense of empathy and fairness.
    Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania have made deals with the Administration to restore their funding, and other universities have conformed to what the Administration seems to want in order to avoid becoming targets themselves.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Importantly, the governed have consented to being governed and to live by the laws of the land.
    Big Think, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The driver of the Jeep consented to a blood draw, an analysis of which is still pending, according to the complaint.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This is particularly relevant in the case of ChatGPT, as OpenAI is, as of writing, obliged by a US federal court order to store all conversations, even those deleted by users or conducted in its Temporary Chat mode.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Following the indictment, the FBI on Wednesday conducted a raid near Augusta, Georgia, arresting leaders after years of allegations that the church operated like a cult and preyed on military communities nationwide.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Camilla became Queen in 2022 when her husband, King Charles, acceded the throne following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
    Jack Guy, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Once the move was official for Iamaleava, the transfer signing essentially acted as the college football equivalent of a trade.
    Tyler Small, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • That prospect flared up for Seoane as the home fans whistled and booed at the final whistle, and became reality on Monday when the club’s board acted.
    Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The grant was awarded, and later Julien went before the Miami-Dade County Commission and persuaded them to build a cultural arts center, not just another teen center where children were babysat while their dreams of the arts were being deferred.
    BEA L. HINES, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Projects will be deferred or canceled, expansions will be rethought, hours and services will be reduced and prices will be pushed up for residents and visitors.
    Mark Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Too often, developments of this size that pop up on virgin ground get lost to boring cookie-cutter street scaping and architecture.
    The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The approach is complemented by heavy use of the Estevez brothers’ childhood Super 8 movies, genre-bending DIY productions that Charlie notes often bore similarities to the movies their father was making at the time.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Complied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/complied. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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