OBEYS Synonyms: 71 Similar and Opposite Words

obeys

verb

present tense third-person singular of obey

as in follows

to act according to the commands of she taught her dog to obey her when she said "Sit!" most people obey the law and wear their seat belts

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Recent Examples of obeys It must be completely replaced with an agency that obeys the law and the Constitution. — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 Ricky obeys, blowing off plans to watch game tape with Russ, out of disguise. — Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2026 The human brain is a physical object, composed of biological material that obeys the laws that govern the rest of the universe, computers included. — Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026 Nietzsche says somewhere that the illusion of willpower rests on our tendency to identify with the part of our soul that commands, not the part that obeys. — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026 Ser Freddryk is conflicted, but ultimately obeys. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026 Shotwell aims to keep clear of geo-political debate—seeing to it that SpaceX obeys the laws and regulations of countries in which Starlink is licensed to operate, and sidestepping blame in places it’s forbidden but is being used anyway. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 28 Mar. 2026 That orange line above is the rising 50-day and this name clearly obeys it. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 9 Feb. 2026 The usual assumption has been that if a user overtly instructs AI to act as a delusion-invoking collaborator, the AI simply obeys those commands. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026

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The incident follows a spate of drone attacks on at least seven cargo vessels off the Black Sea coasts of NATO members Romania and Bulgaria in October.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
The film follows a Polish burglar who assumes the identity of a dead stranger’s girlfriend, with unexpected results.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 18 Oct. 2026

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