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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
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
But he urged the lower courts to “carefully consider whether the existing standards comport with the Constitution.”
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2025
A moral freeze: I couldn’t decide, I couldn’t act, I couldn’t comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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First, they found a 4% decline in employment of undocumented workers, which comports with employer reports that raids have prompted immigrant workers to stop showing up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
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
That comports with a government report earlier this week showing that U.S. employers posted 8.7 million job openings in October, the fewest since March of 2021.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 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
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Biggs opened the door for a trial when the state Supreme Court determined the photo ID law comported with the state constitution.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2024
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
The young women in her circle comported themselves in a foreign ritual, undecipherable.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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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
They've had a lovers' quarrel," explained Lord George to Dick, "which accounts for her comporting herself so amiably to us.
From The Road to Paris by Stephens, Robert Neilson
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