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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That billing has always been hard to square with the objective reality…
From Salon
And that’s really hard to square with what is at stake, and leads us back to the macro perspective.
From Slate
But it’s hard to square with Vance having a wife whose family immigrated from a country that now deserves, he has insinuated, being placed on a restricted immigration list.
From Salon
Like it or not, those terms have value judgments attached to them that can be hard to square with the mounting evidence that microchimeric cells might do more good than harm.
By August 2025, Padma was standing on Hostage Square with Pushpa, meeting other captives’ families before heading to the residence of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to discuss Bipin’s case.
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