square with

phrasal verb

squared with; squaring with; squares with

1

: to agree with (something)

Your story doesn't square with the facts.

2

: to make (something) agree with (something)

How can they square what they've done with what they've said?

3

: to get agreement about or approval of (something) from (someone)

I'll go on the trip if I can square it with my parents.

Examples of square with in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But this tiny and quite new Virginia chocolatier kept cropping back up in my thoughts, especially for an immaculately fluffy vanilla soufflé square with texture somewhere between sea-foam and cloud: There's little like it. —Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 30 Jan. 2025

The obvious problem is that the common explanations don’t square with the coin’s price history. —John Tamny, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024

But how did that square with him celebrating Frederick Douglass’s least favorite holiday alongside the leaders of the very system that was causing the problems? . —Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2025

While Buckley did not consider a separate ban on corporate and union independent expenditures found in §610, had that provision been challenged in Buckley ’s wake, it could not have been squared with the precedent’s reasoning and analysis. —Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 24 Jan. 2025