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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

“I did not want to be part of a team where I’m asked to make arguments that don’t comport with the law and existing legal precedent,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2025

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

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

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

This more or less comports with the experience of my grandmother, my mother and me.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 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, 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

On Saturday, Harry comported himself gracefully and gave the British tabloids, forever in search of more outrage fuel, little to complain about.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 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

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

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.

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

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 Allen, Lewis Falley