as in follower
often disapproving
a person who behaves in a way that is considered acceptable by most people and who avoids doing things that could be considered different or unusual
They went from being angry punk rockers to bland conformists. They like to travel, but they're conformists who go to only the most popular destinations.
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Recent Examples of conformist
Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2023
From being a complacent conformist to a man who seizes accountability for his destiny and doggedly pursues growth, his journey is a testament to his teachings.
—Jon Stogan, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2024
Both reckless and conformist, the traditional male-run VCs were exposed as too easily besotted by hypermasculine charmers like Adam Neumann; 98 percent of the companies in their portfolios had male founders.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
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Noun
For both active Putin supporters and passive conformists, the war is no longer just a part of everyday existence.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2023
From being a complacent conformist to a man who seizes accountability for his destiny and doggedly pursues growth, his journey is a testament to his teachings.
—Jon Stogan, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
Adjective
Yet the two least conformist and most expressive characters on stage, Madson's Rowley and Zoe Smith's Fregley, also appear to be among the freest and happiest people.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2024
Both reckless and conformist, the traditional male-run VCs were exposed as too easily besotted by hypermasculine charmers like Adam Neumann; 98 percent of the companies in their portfolios had male founders.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
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The manager continued, seemingly urging his own followers to inquire about J. Prince’s criminal records.Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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When the Great Depression hit in the early 1930s, Hitler and his followers were ready to take advantage of the German people’s despair and to focus their attention on a scapegoat—the political left and the Jews—as support for centrist political parties eroded.Christine Adams / Made by History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
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Feeding into Milioti’s volatile performance, her costumes chart a journey from obedient heiress to homicidal mob boss, culminating in her violent retribution against Oz in the show’s penultimate episode.Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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Even so, our exercises did not suggest that any authoritarian would command a uniformly obedient federal workforce.Barton Gellman, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
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Humans still seem pretty empowered in this future, where robots are advanced enough to do everything — including developing complex emotions — but have remained a docile servant class.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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Continued authoritarianism, corruption, incompetence, unprofessionalism, and lack of reform outrage all Ukrainians, even those in his traditionally more docile base in the east and the south.Rajan Menon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2011
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The president, in other words, is increasingly subordinate to the courts.Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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This subordinate specification could allow regulators to implement auditing capabilities world-wide.James Felton Keith, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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By avoiding fines and penalties and staying ahead as a compliant finance expert, leaders can ensure regulatory adherence and maintain industry credibility.Expert Panel®, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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The Browns further maintain that even if their constitutional arguments fall short, they should be deemed compliant with the Modell law.Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 Oct. 2024
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Some are incredibly brittle, liable to fall apart when they’re made or when they’re slotted between the electrodes; others are softer and more pliant, but can’t be exposed to moisture.Gregory Barber, WIRED, 6 June 2022
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Or, scarier still, from complete GOP control of Washington, with Trump in the White House, his supplicants running Congress and a pliant Supreme Court dismantling any guardrails keeping a vengeance-minded president in check.Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
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In particular, embodiments describe protective cover layer structures that may be implemented in curved, flexible, conformable and foldable display modules, and in particular with curved, flexible, conformable and foldable display panels.Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Apr. 2021
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Is this suit more conformable than the costume from Revenge of the Sith?Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2022
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Tops don’t have to be hard, masc, and tall — and bottoms don’t have to be submissive, small, or fem!María Saldana, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
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Or would restrictions effectively declare Asians and Hispanics to be undesirables, forcing them to endure a painful, submissive half assimilation into a white mainstream that would never quite accept them?Noah Smith, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2018
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“Conformist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conformist. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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