comported

past tense of comport

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of comported Moura remembers how his grandfather and his father comported themselves. Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025 But generally, the Bobcats comported themselves well against their Big 12 opponent — in contrast to, for example, Oregon State. Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comported
Verb
  • To confirm the match, the team carefully aligned the Hubble and JWST images using 36 stars visible in both datasets as reference points, ensuring that every pixel corresponded to the same spot in the sky, the study noted.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • To calculate the scattering amplitude for a collision of n particles, physicists would have to add up many BCFW terms — and each of those terms corresponded to a region of the positive Grassmannian in n dimensions.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Without a complete skeleton, researchers couldn’t know what the body looked like or how the hominin behaved in its habitat.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • During the subsequent custody battle, Farrow alleged that Allen had behaved inappropriately with their daughter Dylan Farrow.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The famous Stanford Prison Experiment by Zimbardo revealed how quickly people conformed to roles of power or submission, often at the expense of empathy and fairness.
    Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania have made deals with the Administration to restore their funding, and other universities have conformed to what the Administration seems to want in order to avoid becoming targets themselves.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • They were acquitted on the more serious charge of murder.
    Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Borden was famously tried and acquitted of the 1892 ax murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The latest flare-up coincided with a historic trip by Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to Pakistan’s rival India, triggering concern in Islamabad.
    Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Con Tampa in September 2023 and April 2023's Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, which coincided with costar Daniels' 96th birthday.
    Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While Sachsen-class AAW frigates have carried the burden of air defense, the F125s were largely kept out of high-threat zones because of their limited missile range.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Both healthy and sick sea stars carried a ton of Vibrio bacteria—which was expected, since the genus is found all over the ocean.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Dylan Buell / Getty Images The Sacramento Kings and fourth-year forward Keegan Murray have agreed to a five-year, $140 million extension, a league source told The Athletic.
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In a step toward easing that friction, however, NBCU and Apple have agreed to place select programming on the partner service’s app.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Instead of a membrane-like surface seen on other bugs, the leg organ is composed of a waxy covering dotted with several thousand pores connected to porous glands.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Gauss noted that this fall’s cohort is composed of seven teacher-candidates, those with bachelor’s degrees who lack a teaching credential, along with four or five current teachers seeking to add to their existing credential.
    Larry D. Urish, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Comported.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comported. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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