square with
Idioms-
Correspond to, agree with, as in His story doesn't square with what the witness saw . [Late 1500s]
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Settle a disagreement or account with someone, put a matter straight, as in We've squared it with the management to bring our own wine . [Mid-1800s]
Example Sentences
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But that didn’t square with a Jan. 9 memo handed down by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that calls for AI labs to amend their defense contracts to allow “any lawful use” of their technology.
From MarketWatch
Kim delivered a speech from a lectern overlooking Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung Square, with his young daughter, Kim Ju Ae, whom South Korea’s spy agency believes is a potential successor, in attendance.
“Their approach today is difficult to square with how they have interpreted other statutes,” he writes.
Lily flips through the newspaper until she recognizes the big square with the astrology signs.
From Literature
Maybe, but that’s hard to square with the fact that Medicare Advantage enrollees are also more likely to be low-income and have poor self-reported health status.
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