1
as in corresponding
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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2
as in behaving
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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In this way, the team was able to label specific internal regions corresponding to finger angles.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Mar. 2026 -
The researcher says that because antimatter particles are more massive than matter particles, during pair production in the early universe, the antimatter particles were slower than the corresponding matter particles.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
23 Mar. 2026
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JPMorgan highlighted that the oil shock is also behaving differently from past cycles.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
18 Mar. 2026
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The Saints are behaving methodically despite the excitement about Shough, spending on players who can be weight-bearing walls in the next phase of their team-building, while attuned to bringing down the age of the team.—
Jourdan Rodrigue,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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Researchers have developed new hair-thin actuator fiber that can pave way to build safer soft robots and body-conforming wearable devices designed to interact closely with people.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Mar. 2026
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Exile is a state of being barred from a homeland—of being forced to live in a foreign world as punishment for not conforming.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Feb. 2026
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Troopers have determined the bus was carrying about 60 seventh and eighth grade students and adult staff members when the engine compartment began to smoke just south of Exit 32.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Heifler was carrying a large bottle of Everclear, a liquor with a high alcohol content level and had other components to make the Molotov cocktails at his home, the complaint said.—
Jake Offenhartz,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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The Minnesota Wild’s acquisition of Hughes to keep up with Colorado’s Makar and Dallas’ Heiskanen can’t be ignored here either, nor should the Edmonton Oilers’ rise coinciding with Evan Bouchard’s.—
Dom Luszczyszyn,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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Nonetheless, development continued, with the model’s debut in 1987 as Enzo’s ultimate road-going statement, coinciding that year with the company’s 40th anniversary.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
20 Mar. 2026
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In Davis’s work, runny paint has a way of acquitting objects of their permanence.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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Soon after, Dead & Company, with John Mayer acquitting himself in the Garcia role better than anyone would have thought, set sail.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
17 Feb. 2026
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In analyzing the cases of murder exonerees who sued, the Tribune found cases typically spawned roughly 300 docket entries and cost taxpayers nearly $900,000 in legal defense fees as the city often took the cases to the verge of trial before agreeing to pay.—
Joe Mahr,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Several of the defendants have been hit with similar issues at the original Astor on Third building, agreeing to a $500,000 lawsuit settlement in February that requires them to fix accessibility issues.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
29 Mar. 2026
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The only options are to keep trying, which is what conducting science is, or to give up.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Mar. 2026
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Practically, this means that in addition to running your bags through the scanner and conducting physical pat-downs, the agents at security checkpoints may request proof of citizenship, ask personal questions, and demand to go through a traveler’s phone.—
Laura Bassett,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Comporting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comporting. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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