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McConnell, an appointee of Democratic president Barack Obama, said it was not his role to rule on "the wisdom of the government's policy choices" but to determine whether they "comport with the law."

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

Food makers have long tweaked their recipes and rolled out new products to comport with changing government regulations and consumer preferences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

“I did not want to be part of a team where I’m asked to make arguments that don’t comport with the law and existing legal precedent,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2025

The Supreme Court in its opinion said, " The lower courts shall move expeditiously to ensure that, with respect to each plaintiff, the injunctions comport with this rule and otherwise comply with principles of equity."

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025

“And you, E’lir Kvothe, will comport yourself with more decorum in the future.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

But this only comports with the science as we’ve known it for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

He said the plaintiffs were “seeking a limited and measured remedy ... the minimum that comports with due process.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025

This more or less comports with the experience of my grandmother, my mother and me.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

This comports with what researchers know about people who become radicalized.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2023

She nods; what I’ve just said, for whatever reason, comports with what she knows of her son.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Reiner was a unique blend of ace entertainer and director, playing to a personality type that comported with who he was when he wasn’t in front of or behind a camera.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025

Caryl Carota, 81, said she thought four or five of the women comported themselves well and seemed to have caught the eye of the bachelor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

None has been compelled to testify in civil or criminal court — or even explain in public what happened, why the officers opened fire, and how their decisions comported, or did not, with department procedures.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023

Professor Davison discovered, however, that the equation was a misprint and that what Orwell originally wrote was “2 + 2 = 5,” which comported with Big Brother’s Newspeak.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

Old Abraham, who was not old at all but who had comported himself in the manner of an elderly misanthrope since he first learned to sit up.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Scott and Goba did a fine job of pushing back at the most ridiculous lies, generally comporting themselves and the profession well.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2024

“I’m a practicing Catholic, and it is the biggest dilemma for me in terms of comporting my religious and cultural views with my political responsibility,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in April 2007.

From Washington Post ● May 3, 2022

So it is like, “Well, are you a court? Because this sounds a lot like a court but you’re not exactly comporting yourself as a court.”

From The Verge ● May 11, 2021

Even if she doesn’t agree with them, she’s comporting with them.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2021

Came down to this candidate-for-office way of comporting himself.

From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by Brehm, George