comity
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"His many detractors should grant that his comments late Saturday at a White House press briefing hit the right notes of gratitude and comity," a Wall Street Journal editorial observed.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
His many detractors should grant that his comments late Saturday at a White House press briefing hit the right notes of gratitude and comity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
He’s no newcomer to political comity, and has always seemed sincere promoting it.
From Slate • Dec. 16, 2025
They likely shook hands as they left the New York Historical, where the episode was filmed, content to have participated in a demonstration that relative comity is possible . . . in Middlevania.
From Salon • Oct. 22, 2025
There was much argument, and those sensations of fraternity and comity which at first brought our Regiment together at our dances gave way, I fear, to anger: “What signifies that?”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
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