comport
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He goes on to explain that the Catholic school immunization requirements comport with the Pontifical Academy for Life statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
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
Reed next tried to convince federal courts that construing the statute that way did not comport with the fundamental fairness required by the 14th Amendment’s due process clause.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2026
"They were very much Team Mick and I think they were coming at it from the generational side, where it was like, 'That is not the way that you comport yourself, and it's disrespectful.'"
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
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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Their thesis certainly comports with recent market action.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
This comports with the star’s understanding of how the world works based on the wealth she’s spun out of industrialized fame.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025
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
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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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
There was no criticism of how Meghan comported herself in these public engagements.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022
I asked those companies for comment on how those donations comported with their stated commitments to voting and healthcare rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 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
Let it be understood, that the above sums are named as simply comporting with a financial view of the subject, and such as the economical management of the estate may warrant.
From Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings by Lewis Falley Allen
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