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Examples of disobedience in a Sentence
Alan Feuer, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Some districts in Ohio, such as Cleveland Municipal, reduced the number of disobedience suspensions of Black children over the past year, but the number in Ohio overall climbed to more than 78,400 in 2022-23, up 16% from the previous year.
—Meredith Kolodner, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
Women’s disobedience resulted in severe physical punishment, with instances of Roman women being kicked to death, drowned and thrown from windows.
—Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2024
Roosevelt was unimpressed by their creativity, not to mention their disobedience.
—Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
On Reddit, dozens of users described the bot’s disobedience on tasks, like asking it to write a short summary on a topic and instead receiving an essay.
—Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2024
Published in 1936, it was read by some as a parable about pacifism and disobedience (and banned in fascist Spain and Germany by Franco and Hitler).
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
Her anger was easily aroused by disobedience and contradiction.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
These new laws are the direct result of corporate and energy interests trying to squash resistance to their projects—and represent a chilling new chapter in how the law will handle disobedience.
—Jenna Ruddock, The New Republic, 25 Sep. 2023
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15th century, in the meaning defined above
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“Disobedience.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disobedience. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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