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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How does all that square with the boom in new jobs?
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026
However, that doesn’t square with GameStop saying it put its money to work after its fiscal year drew to a close, he added.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
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 • Feb. 27, 2026
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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
The simplest was a three-by-three square, with the numbers 1 to 9 arranged so that every row, column and diagonal added up to 15.
From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine
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