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Recent Examples of comity The comity on school spending, however, shuns a debate that California’s politicians should be having — what to do about the system’s chronically subpar academic achievement. Dan Walters, Mercury News, 20 June 2025 No private person’s natural rights could trump those of the community: preserving peace, order, and comity. Fara Dabhoiwala, Harpers Magazine, 4 June 2025 In essence, the United States promised protection in exchange for military access and political-economic comity in Asia but without demanding fully reciprocal protection for itself. Ely Ratner, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2025 In the interest of comity, then, and in the hopes for an impressively long list of signatories, the hosts would have fudged the question. Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for comity
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Noun
  • Now, trend forecasts show that design professionals will favor more tone-on-tone, cohesive palettes that tend to offer a sense of calm, visual harmony, and longevity.
    Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The group remains committed to intricate harmonies, which are a source of the album’s unique pleasures.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But the patient, grinding work of peace implementation typically bores him.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Many obstacles remain to a lasting peace — including whether Israel will pull its military entirely out of Gaza, whether Hamas will disarm and who will govern Gaza — but the peace plan may already be shifting the debate around calls to ban and boycott culture coming out of Israel.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Comity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comity. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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