Postal Service v. Konan · ¶80

If there were any doubt, the words surrounding “miscar- riage” resolve it.As the Court in Dolan explained, when construed in context, “[a] word in a statute may or may not extend to the outer limits of its definitional possibilities.” 546 U. S., at 486.For example, “ ‘[a] word is known by the company it keeps,’ ” and “ ‘[w]ords grouped in a list should be given related meaning.’ ”Id., at 486–487.Without this rule, courts risk “ ‘ascribing to one word a meaning so broad that it is inconsistent with its accompanying words, thus giv- ing unintended breadth to the Acts of Congress.’ ”Yates v. United States, 574 U. S. 528, 543 (2015) (plurality opinion).

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