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aligns

  • present tense form
    of align (3rd person singular).
    align
    verb (used with object)
    to arrange in a straight line; adjust according to a line.

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A campus claiming a commitment to free expression should have a culture that aligns with those values.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The 25-year-old center’s age aligns well with Doncic, 27, and Reaves, 28, creating a potent trio that could define the franchise’s new era.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

For Samantha, she said what makes headlines rarely aligns with her own experience at Burning Man.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

The issue for OpenAI, Anthropic and other tech giants is that no one seems to have cracked the so-called alignment problem - in other words, whether AI aligns with human values.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

I watch as she aligns her two yellow pencils.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett