square with

Cassiopeia swept up crumbs and leftover crusts of bread from the breakfast tray and tied them snugly in a linen square; with these she would tempt the birds close enough to be recognized.

That billing has always been hard to square with the objective reality…

And that’s really hard to square with what is at stake, and leads us back to the macro perspective.

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.

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.