comity
Example Sentences
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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
Unlike today’s comity among most European leaders, wartime distrust lingered and cooperation proved elusive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
I’ve learned over the years that what’s mine is yours and usually likewise in the spirit of hiker comity.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
Third, Democrats and Republicans should use the affordability crisis as a point of comity.
From Slate • Feb. 17, 2025
Days later, I could not find the tortoise, and apprehended that hunger had wrestled custom and comity and triumphed over them both.
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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