in keeping with

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Homeland Security data from the first quarter of the 2025 fiscal year, the latest available, shows that of some 350,000 new permanent residencies issued, about 190,000—54 percent—were adjustments, which is in keeping with historical trends.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

This latest incarnation is in keeping with the building’s long history in the community.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

The whole business was entirely in keeping with the season, the twists and turns and stings in the tail.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

Subsequent recording artists—Sinatra, Crosby and others—changed the meter to either a 4/4 or a cut-time two-beat meter in keeping with the jazz era that swept the U.S. in the 1920s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Jumbled lines of the writhing bodies suggest a mood of turbulence, in keeping with Géricault’s theme of titanic struggle against the elements.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell