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as in corresponded
to be in agreement on every point
an outfit that most definitely does not comport with the company's guidelines for dress-down days
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as in behaved
to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way
the grieving relatives comported themselves with grace and dignity during that difficult time
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Recent Examples of comported
Moura remembers how his grandfather and his father comported themselves.
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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
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
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The younger Jackson told me that Greene had chatted with his father during his swearing-in, and the two subsequently corresponded.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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The team only used each frog once, and paired them with the hornet species that corresponded to their size.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
4 Dec. 2025
Verb
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In exposing these cells to forms of stress that damage DNA — such as chemicals that mimic UV exposure — the scientists observed how the cells behaved inside their natural setting.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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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
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That usage earlier in the season coincided with injuries to Martin Odegaard and Martinelli.—
Art de Roché,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Alcohol metabolism coincided with a major global climate disruption that fragmented East African forest ecosystems and left food scarce.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Dugan pleaded not guilty, and she was acquitted on a lesser misdemeanor charge.—
Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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Only four were acquitted of all charges, according to NPR; the rest were found guilty by judge or jury on at least some counts.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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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
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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
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The show, which was slated to be carried live by the network and stream on Peacock, has reportedly been shelved in order to allow Snoop to focus on his gig as a Winter Olympics correspondent.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
6 Nov. 2025
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Lee performed two new songs early on during the set, both of which carried the hazy radio-skipping nostalgia of Diamond Jubilee.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
6 Nov. 2025
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Leaders in Congress agreed and sent out armadas of patriot privateers to do just that, plundering British shipping around the Atlantic rim and forcing Royal Navy warships to redeploy to convoy duty.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Advertisement In April 2021, Min Aung Hlaing personally agreed at an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting to the Five Point Consensus intended to end the bloodshed and open a path toward dialogue.—
Kim Aris,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
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Western red cedar is a softwood composed of long, thin cells with microstructural dimensions up to seven times smaller than those of bamboo.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
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Four-time Oscar-nominated Dan Romer composed the score and the film features the first acting role of Femi Koleoso, the drummer and leader of the BRIT Award and Mercury Music Prize winning British jazz group Ezra Collective.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Comported.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comported. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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