as in ignoring
to go against the commands, prohibitions, or rules of
students who disobey their teachers and use cell phones in class drivers who consistently disobey traffic laws
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Recent Examples of disobeying
Santana-Mateo was booked on charges of breach of peace, engaging police in a pursuit, disobeying the direction of officer, reckless driving, failure to obey a stop sign, failure to drive right, failure to obey a traffic control signal and driving the wrong way on a one way.
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Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
17 June 2026
Icarus disobeying his father Daedalus and flying too close to the sun.
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Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
He was cited with disobeying a traffic control device, not having proof of insurance and obstructing a police officer.
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Addison Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
26 May 2026
Saulter was being investigated for allegedly falsifying time sheets, disobeying a direct order and failing to report part-time employment properly.
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Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 May 2026
Authorities last August removed Dodik from the post of the president and temporarily banned him from politics for disobeying Schmidt's decisions.
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ABC News,
11 May 2026
Trump had to relent on a scheme to prosecute Fed Chair Jerome Powell for disobeying White House commands to cut interest rates.
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David Frum,
The Atlantic,
26 Apr. 2026
Your brother had similar pressure put on him by the national team after disobeying instructions and speaking out.
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Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
He was arraigned Monday and pleaded not guilty to one felony count of animal cruelty, one misdemeanor charge each of injury to a spouse or cohabitant and attempting to dissuade a victim or witness, and three counts of disobeying a court order to not contact the victim.
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Alex Wigglesworth,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
17 June 2026
Icarus disobeying his father Daedalus and flying too close to the sun.
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Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
He was cited with disobeying a traffic control device, not having proof of insurance and obstructing a police officer.
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Addison Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
26 May 2026
Saulter was being investigated for allegedly falsifying time sheets, disobeying a direct order and failing to report part-time employment properly.
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Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 May 2026
Authorities last August removed Dodik from the post of the president and temporarily banned him from politics for disobeying Schmidt's decisions.
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ABC News,
11 May 2026
Trump had to relent on a scheme to prosecute Fed Chair Jerome Powell for disobeying White House commands to cut interest rates.
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David Frum,
The Atlantic,
26 Apr. 2026
Your brother had similar pressure put on him by the national team after disobeying instructions and speaking out.
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Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
He was arraigned Monday and pleaded not guilty to one felony count of animal cruelty, one misdemeanor charge each of injury to a spouse or cohabitant and attempting to dissuade a victim or witness, and three counts of disobeying a court order to not contact the victim.
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Alex Wigglesworth,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disobeying
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Make Participation Effortless Reduce friction to the point where using it feels like less effort than ignoring it.
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For example, today, Americans might believe that the demands of racial equity or of evangelical Christianity are so pressing that executive power would be justified in ignoring the legislature or the judiciary to serve them.
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Earlier this year, the European Commission found that the social media giant was violating EU law by failing to prevent children below 13 from accessing its platforms.
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The complaint also accuses G-MAC of violating Title IX, a federal law that commands gender equity in college sports.
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Jay Manuel and Pamela Chavez-Manuel have spent years defying expectations, and their latest chapter is no exception.
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Machado left Venezuela in December to travel to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, defying a decade-long travel ban imposed under Maduro’s government.
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Second lady Usha Vance mocking The New York Times for reading political significance into her Old Navy maternity dress and the New York Knicks celebrating their NBA title were featured in last week's News Quiz.
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This patriotic anthem of the American Revolution originated as a favorite tune of British soldiers, who enjoyed its lyrics mocking American colonists.
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He was also charged with one misdemeanor count of resisting an officer.
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Preserving slave ownership, along with resisting political overreach from Mexico City, were principal reasons that the Mexican state of Texas fought to break free of Mexico.
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“Disobeying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disobeying. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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