How to Use accord in a Sentence

accord

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  • The two sides were able to reach an accord.
  • In 1973, the Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.
    — Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • And some leave of their own accord, tired of working at the hospital with the worst luck in the country, if not the world.
    — TIME, 14 Mar. 2024
  • This is designed to pressure you to leave on your own accord.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But even if that happens, all hope is not lost for meeting the Paris accord goals.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Iraq, Oman and the United Arab Emirates also praised the accord.
    — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The accord, signed in April 1998, helped bring an end to decades of conflict in Northern Ireland.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • And many of those fake refugees left quickly on their own accord soon after.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Biden’s visit was timed to mark the anniversary of the Good Friday accord, which the U.S. was key to striking.
    — Colleen Long, Darlene Superville, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Heinz added that Millard did not appear to be in distress and left on his own accord.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023
  • In 2010, Yanukovych won the presidency promising to sign the accords.
    — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Patients drop in, seemingly on their own time and of their own accord.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The earth and Sea of their own accord furnishes them with all things necessary for Life.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Having fought on both sides of the war, Hun Sen, who ascended to power in 1985, was a key player in the peace accords.
    — Time, 21 July 2023
  • One of the most interesting notes, an accord of rice steam, evokes the grain of the paper and adds a comforting warmth to the fragrance.
    — Austa Somvichian-Clausen, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But not nearly enough to meet the goals of the Paris accord and stave off even more extreme events like what’s recently struck Brazil.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The court can ‘’on its own accord’' order the FDA withdrawal, Baptist said.
    — Perry Stein, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Saudi Arabia resisted joining the accords at the time and has been the big prize ever since.
    — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
  • The plan appears to be: present Ana as an absent mother and unfaithful wife who ran away of her own accord.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Though 2024 is clearly a big year for Swift, she's been to the Globes a handful of times before, whether there on her own accord or to celebrate with friends.
    — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • But that is not always the case that even if a child leaves on his or her own accord, there are all sorts of dangerous things that could have happened to them.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Then there’s the possibility of getting kicked out of the group chat (or leaving on your own accord).
    — Fortesa Latifi, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The accord ended a four-month long walkout that largely shut down film and TV production.
    — Thomas Buckley, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Here’s why there was little accord on what caused a tragic blast at one hospital in Gaza.
    — WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Adults, on their own accord, race down Mount Tabor in wheeled contraptions of their own making.
    — oregonlive, 16 Aug. 2023
  • After more than a year of negotiations, an accord was all but reached in the summer of 2022 to restore most of the agreement.
    — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The meeting ended at about 8:30 p.m., amid growing hopes that the sides would be able to reach an accord before the Yom Kippur holiday.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The soldiers, mostly Tutsis, became part of the national army through that accord.
    — Sarah Dean, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Last year, countries involved in the initial agreement offered Tehran what was described as their last, best roadmap to restore the accord.
    — Jon Gambrell and Matthew Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Furthermore, the decision to make that purchase is 100% of our own accord and of our own volition.
    — Cody Strate, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023

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