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How can we possibly live compatibly with wildfire when it is cast in such apocalyptic terms?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025

Doing that compatibly with the civilian opposition won’t be easy: Last year, there was an outcry when the U.S. defense attache in Managua praised the army’s role in “stability.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2022

Bodies and departments that are usually subject to laws that ensure they act lawfully, fairly and compatibly with human rights.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2020

Ruling on Tuesday, Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas said some crimes were "so heinous" that Parliament was entitled to allow whole-life orders "entirely compatibly" with the European Convention on Human Rights.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2014

Clara would willingly have avoided any such formality could she have done so compatibly with the exigencies of the occasion.

From The Belton Estate by Trollope, Anthony