align
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Probiotic frozen yogurts, which contain healthy fats and more protein than other versions, align with the types of high-protein diets that have taken off with the boom in GLP-1 weight-loss medications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
You say you and your dad have different “tastes,” but it sounds more like you don’t align on your lifestyle — that’s a bigger issue altogether.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Citing this seminal ruling, Biden issued guidance to ensure employees and students would be allowed to use the bathroom, changing facilities, pronouns and names that align with their gender identity.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
In a statement, Academic Senate Chair Ahmet Palazoglu said the senate’s review of testing “will align with the Board of Regents’ timeline.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
It shifted the blame for the rupture of the friendship onto the Hamiltonians, whom he knew Adams utterly despised, then invited Adams to align himself, at least retrospectively, with the Republican side of the debate.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Everything aligns — front to back, inside to outside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Instead, the group representing sleep doctors favors permanent standard time, saying it aligns best with a human’s circadian rhythm, meaning your body’s natural clock.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
However, the prospect aligns with commentary from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who told shareholders in May that a move into cloud computing was definitely “on the table.”
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
That aligns with SoftBank’s push to become the world’s leading AI-robotics company, Son added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
I watch as she aligns her two yellow pencils.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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Its 3% on-year production growth aligned with a more than 50% rise in oil prices from the same period a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
“Our foreign assistance programming is aligned to support our strategic priorities.”
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
In Whitehead’s debut novel, the not-realistic “The Intuitionist,” a Black female elevator inspector faces powerful forces aligned against her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
One candidate was later ruled out because a perfectly aligned supermassive black hole in the background explained the unusual signal.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
Mr. Richardson, looking at the silver arrow aligned and gleaming and certain in the clouded water, touched the collar of his shirt, wondered which way he was facing now.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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How should employers respond to Gen Z’s ethical concerns about their work having a positive impact and aligning with their social values?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
If machines cannot interpret the unspoken context behind human intentions, reliably aligning advanced AI systems with human goals may prove impossible.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Oil markets and Middle East producers appear to be aligning around a new reality: The Strait of Hormuz is no longer expected to return to a prewar norm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
“That’s why it’s called ‘Acomodo,’ because everything is aligning itself as it should be,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Once it reached the port's retractor mechanism, the automated system clamped on to the boom and pulled it in, aligning and orienting the probe automatically.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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