reconcilable

Example Sentences

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Again, these characters are not people I analyze; they’re pieces of verbal artifice I invent, and whose almost limitless complications I try—again, using words—to make reconcilable.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 30, 2018

If the issue isn’t reconcilable, or if talking to your colleague directly didn’t work, tap the chain of command—but be sure to have a solution in mind.

From Time • Jun. 20, 2017

In my view, this convergence of opinion ought to be a source of strength – even if we have little else that feels reconcilable.

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2016

What Boston demonstrated was that the twin dreams of making Olympics hosting more egalitarian and more affordable may ultimately not be reconcilable.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2016

Despite his professed fearlessness, the robber-chief could not but be sensible of the danger he was in; and the sang froid displayed by him was scarcely reconcilable with the situation.

From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Reid, Mayne