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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

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

"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

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

Their thesis certainly comports with recent market action.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

In the same case, the federal government has argued that the agreement comports with federal law, which it said “generally restricts the IRS from disclosing any tax return information” but provides for certain exceptions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025

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

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

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

How Barack and I comported ourselves in the face of instability mattered.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

“And it is the biggest dilemma for me in terms of comporting my religious and cultural views with my political responsibility.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2022

“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

They are now gone out to the point of the rocks at the end of our promontory, fishing for microscopical monsters, and comporting themselves boy and girl fashion.

From More Bywords by Charlotte Mary Yonge