How to Use deference in a Sentence

deference

noun
Definition of deferencenext
Synonyms for deferencenext
  • He is shown much deference by his colleagues.
  • Her relatives treat one another with deference.
  • In general, the courts give deference to state agencies that set rules interpreting such laws.
    — Sarah Freishtat, chicagotribune.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The moves cement a legacy of deference to industry, cheap energy and commerce.
    — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 24 Jan. 2021
  • The second challenge is that courts have generally granted broad deference to voters to pass such initiatives.
    — Brian Melley, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2021
  • With all deference to Winston Churchill, the weather is also a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
    — Star Tribune, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Overtime was abolished, too, in order to get traveling teams out of rinks on time, in deference to wartime restrictions on delaying or rescheduling trains.
    — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
  • The company and state officials are not publicly identifying the dead in deference to their families.
    — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The mostly white mob rioting at the Capitol last week earned his support and admiration, and deference from law enforcement.
    — al, 14 Jan. 2021
  • There used to be a kind of deference to the U.S. Not anymore.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 19 May 2018
  • The law requires deference to the work of state court judges, but what if those judges hadn’t done the work?
    — Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
  • That deference may not have mattered much most of the time.
    — Steven Lee Myers, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2020
  • Lin wrote the lyrics that pay deference to all of the towns in Puerto Rico.
    — Andres Tardio, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2017
  • There is a deference that the White House has to senators from a state.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 5 Feb. 2022
  • She’s agreed to share me with you out of deference to my culture.
    — Karan Mahajan, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • On its face, that sounds a lot like the Supreme Court applied Chevron deference.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 June 2022
  • Day said those plans were scrapped in deference to taking no chances with the virus.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2020
  • For the business lobby, killing Chevron deference is the big brass ring.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Spent in deference, as ever, to those with much more than me.
    — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Thomas seemed to take a shot at that deference to precedent by Roberts.
    — Fox News, 29 June 2020
  • There has been a deference that has been given in the past,’’ Murphy said.
    — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 9 July 2018
  • The drums should be the loudest in any mix — live or recorded — and the drummer shown the greatest deference.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2020
  • My new method of marking wasn't out of deference to books.
    — Connie Nelson, Star Tribune, 11 June 2021
  • Then in 2016, in a show of deference to the prickly Persians, Xi went to Tehran to cement the alliance.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Goldberg asks: Should Trump get the same deference as Bush?
    — latimes.com, 7 July 2018
  • Rare are those who, for any reason, earn that kind of deference.
    — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The idea is that the trial court is entitled to deference.
    — Steve Vladeck, CNN, 26 Sep. 2022
  • There still seems to be some deference to the real estate masters of the universe in the way the language is framed.
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Some states have had little choice but to show deference.
    — Joe Drape, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
  • This is a departure from the deference shown to the previous bachelor, Joey Graziadei, who is still engaged to his final choice, Kelsey Anderson.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024

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