Accord
verb
To give or allow someone something.
The school accords each student an opportunity to perform on stage.
Often appears as...
- accord someone respect
- accord someone honor
noun
An official agreement or treaty.
The two countries signed a peace accord.
Often appears as...
- peace accord
- paris accord
verb
To match or agree with something.
Your story accords with what I have heard from others.
Often appears as...
- accords with the facts
- accords with our expectations
verb
To give or allow someone something.
The school accords each student an opportunity to perform on stage.
Often appears as...
- accord someone respect
- accord someone honor
noun
An official agreement or treaty.
The two countries signed a peace accord.
Often appears as...
- peace accord
- paris accord
verb
To match or agree with something.
Your story accords with what I have heard from others.
Often appears as...
- accords with the facts
- accords with our expectations
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Generosity Expressed
Use 'accord' to describe generous actions, like giving opportunities or honors.
The company accords its employees with yearly bonuses.
Pro Tip 2/3Respectful Acknowledgment
Often used when recognizing achievements or granting privileges respectfully.
The village accorded the war veterans a special day of celebration.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Context
Suitable for formal occasions or official records, less common in casual speech.
The dean will accord the top students with medals.
Pro Tip 1/3Generosity Expressed
Use 'accord' to describe generous actions, like giving opportunities or honors.
The company accords its employees with yearly bonuses.
Pro Tip 2/3Respectful Acknowledgment
Often used when recognizing achievements or granting privileges respectfully.
The village accorded the war veterans a special day of celebration.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Context
Suitable for formal occasions or official records, less common in casual speech.
The dean will accord the top students with medals.
Pro Tip 1/3Generosity Expressed
Use 'accord' to describe generous actions, like giving opportunities or honors.
The company accords its employees with yearly bonuses.
Pro Tip 2/3Respectful Acknowledgment
Often used when recognizing achievements or granting privileges respectfully.
The village accorded the war veterans a special day of celebration.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Context
Suitable for formal occasions or official records, less common in casual speech.
The dean will accord the top students with medals.
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A kinder, gentler...
but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect -- they are willing to accord us,
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Safari Live - Day 15 PIPE...
even though they predate on things they also have a lot of predators that they have to look out for on the own accord so it's not easy life when you're a predator everyone always thinks that the Predators have it much easier but they don't they've also got a lot to deal with and a lot of animals to watch out
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Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
makes parasites amazing. They're constantly inviting us to look at the natural world sideways, and to ask if the behaviors we're seeing, whether they're simple and obvious or baffling and puzzling, are not the results of individuals acting through their own accord but because they are being bent
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How science fiction can...
that of its own accord can produce enough energy to power an entire city, or destroy it one fell swoop. "How can such energy come from nowhere?" he would demand to know. "That's not science, that's magic." And for all intents and purposes, he would be right. His 19th century grasp of science
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Philip Howard: Four ways...
to use their judgment to interpret and apply the law in accord with reasonable social norms. As you're going down, and walking down the sidewalk during the day, you have to think that if there is a dispute, there's somebody in society who sees it as their job to affirmatively protect you
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Bjorn Lomborg: Global...
and who needed the help so much more?" So I think that really does tell us why it is we need to get our priorities straight. Even if it doesn't accord to the typical way we see this problem. Of course, that's mainly because climate change has good pictures.
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How (and why) Russia...
so that they make a decision on their own accord that's favorable to you. This is nation-state-grade image control and perception management, and it's conducted by any means, with any tools, network-based or otherwise, that will achieve it.
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How deepfakes undermine...
And social media platforms supercharge that tendency, by allowing us to instantly and widely share information that accords with our viewpoints. Now, deepfakes have the potential to cause grave individual and societal harm.
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Tzeporah Berman: The bad...
and new climate ambition. A fossil fuel treaty will help us wind down the production of fossil fuels. It will provide a complement and help us achieve the goals of the Paris accord.
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Mind-blowing illusions PIPE...
accord according the strong version of the anthropic principle there are many different universes or many different regions of a single he eats with zone in
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A kinder, gentler...
but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect -- they are willing to accord us,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 15 PIPE...
even though they predate on things they also have a lot of predators that they have to look out for on the own accord so it's not easy life when you're a predator everyone always thinks that the Predators have it much easier but they don't they've also got a lot to deal with and a lot of animals to watch out
Video examples
Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
makes parasites amazing. They're constantly inviting us to look at the natural world sideways, and to ask if the behaviors we're seeing, whether they're simple and obvious or baffling and puzzling, are not the results of individuals acting through their own accord but because they are being bent
Video examples
How science fiction can...
that of its own accord can produce enough energy to power an entire city, or destroy it one fell swoop. "How can such energy come from nowhere?" he would demand to know. "That's not science, that's magic." And for all intents and purposes, he would be right. His 19th century grasp of science
Video examples
Philip Howard: Four ways...
to use their judgment to interpret and apply the law in accord with reasonable social norms. As you're going down, and walking down the sidewalk during the day, you have to think that if there is a dispute, there's somebody in society who sees it as their job to affirmatively protect you
Video examples
Bjorn Lomborg: Global...
and who needed the help so much more?" So I think that really does tell us why it is we need to get our priorities straight. Even if it doesn't accord to the typical way we see this problem. Of course, that's mainly because climate change has good pictures.
Video examples
How (and why) Russia...
so that they make a decision on their own accord that's favorable to you. This is nation-state-grade image control and perception management, and it's conducted by any means, with any tools, network-based or otherwise, that will achieve it.
Video examples
How deepfakes undermine...
And social media platforms supercharge that tendency, by allowing us to instantly and widely share information that accords with our viewpoints. Now, deepfakes have the potential to cause grave individual and societal harm.
Video examples
Tzeporah Berman: The bad...
and new climate ambition. A fossil fuel treaty will help us wind down the production of fossil fuels. It will provide a complement and help us achieve the goals of the Paris accord.
Video examples
Mind-blowing illusions PIPE...
accord according the strong version of the anthropic principle there are many different universes or many different regions of a single he eats with zone in
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James Fenimore Cooper
American Writer
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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George Monbiot
British Writer
The government argues that without a price, the living world is accorded no value, so irrational decisions are made. By costing nature, you ensure that it commands the investment and protection that other forms of capital attract.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian Author
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
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Franz Kafka
Novelist
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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Hjalmar Branting
Swedish Statesman
A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.
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Douglas MacArthur
American General
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
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Stephanie Coontz
American Author
Over the ages, some societies have accorded far less value and respect to singles than to married individuals.
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Joseph Conrad
Polish Novelist
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
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Ovid
Roman Poet
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
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James Fenimore Cooper
American Writer
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
Quote examples
George Monbiot
British Writer
The government argues that without a price, the living world is accorded no value, so irrational decisions are made. By costing nature, you ensure that it commands the investment and protection that other forms of capital attract.
Quote examples
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian Author
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
Quote examples
Franz Kafka
Novelist
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Quote examples
Hjalmar Branting
Swedish Statesman
A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.
Quote examples
Douglas MacArthur
American General
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
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Stephanie Coontz
American Author
Over the ages, some societies have accorded far less value and respect to singles than to married individuals.
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Joseph Conrad
Polish Novelist
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
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Ovid
Roman Poet
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
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