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comport

[kuhm-pawrt, -pohrt] / kəmˈpɔrt, -ˈpoʊrt /




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That assessment doesn’t comport with the reality of the comic’s three lackluster appearances as guest host.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Through his cellmate, Gershkovich learned the rules of Russian prison life, including how to perform various bodily functions in the cramped cell and how to comport himself with other inmates to stay safe.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The first task is to reorient the underlying assumptions informing American foreign policy to comport with reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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

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

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

Reiner, though, 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

The team is unhappy with the player’s performance — and in some cases, how he has comported himself as its longest-tenured member after Stephen Strasburg.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 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

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

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

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

As Wolfe tells it, Everett discovered that the stripped-down Pirahã language lacked recursion, comporting with a simple, here-and-now lifestyle that ignored the past and the future.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2016

When I first observed the animal it was on a grassy clearing close to patches of fruit, and was so comporting itself that in the distance I mistook it for a squirrel.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale


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