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By that they mean it almost conforms to expectations – but not quite.
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From December 1892 on, Dvorak's compositions almost all conformed to his American vocabulary.
The first of Gettysburg's three days almost perfectly conformed to Lee's hopes.
The late Justice Scalia's pretense was that "originalism," a doctrine of tracking pure intention alone, could absolve judges from ideology — but, of course, as has been pointed out countless times, the original intentions he found almost always conformed precisely to the prejudices and passion of a right-wing Catholic Republican of the twenty-first century.
The standard deviation of CD metric and distance metric are almost identical conforming the superiority of CD to distance as a path metric.
Interestingly, the predicted model almost perfectly conformed to the determined structure of individual domain of the seed storage globulins, canavalin and phaseolin that showed a significant sequence similarity with germins [ 39, 40].
It's not about conforming to anything.
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