conform

Day-to-day life on the streets is mandated to conform to a particularly conservative understanding of Islam.

Yeah, Wilt got spicy later, but in the '50s, he conformed like everybody else.

But these sculptures have frequently been left out of the conversation because they don’t conform to traditional ideas about gender and heterosexual desire.

It might refer to Chirli, the literal female dog of the novel, but it has the double meaning of being a not-so-nice term for women who don’t conform to societal expectations.