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reconcile

[rek-uhn-sahyl] / ˈrɛk ənˌsaɪl /




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A similar tension shadows how we reconcile what Winfrey means to American culture.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Sellars finds it hard to reconcile this woman, whom she has only known to be kind and protective, with the person who committed a heinous crime 31 years ago.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

As I walked out into the desert sunshine, I tried to reconcile the suffering I’d seen online with aliens performing metaphysical microsurgeries throughout my body.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Researchers found surprisingly little agreement on topics ranging from black holes and dark matter to the long-running effort to reconcile Einstein's theory of gravity with quantum mechanics.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Then I would go into the attempt of the late medieval commentary to reconcile the diverse explanations of the commentaries.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

Investors are waiting to hear how Fed Chair Kevin Warsh reconciles his patient approach to rate policy with his backing of the 2% target.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

There is nothing that reconciles those two decisions through any logic or law.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026

Driven to the edge of her mind with grief, Ann reconciles her misery with a vow of celibacy.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

More like a short story, recounting the evening from Hart’s point of view as he reconciles with the fact that his former creative partner Richard Rodgers has created a hit with Oscar Hammerstein.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025

The explanation which reconciles these theories is that the one refers to the order of thought, or logical precedence, the other to the order of expression.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton

Phobos' present-day gravity field, shape, density, spectral properties, and changing orbit must all be reconciled within a single geophysical model.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

"That includes several audits. They have now reconciled their historical data, and recently they published a revised bulletin with the historical data, incorporating the findings of the debt," she said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

In those earliest works using magazine transfers, Cowin layered disjunctive images, visually uniting realities that can’t easily be reconciled emotionally.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

The star has previously said that "for a really long time" she had perceived Christopher as one of her "biggest enemies" - but they reconciled before his death.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

“Tell them about me. Tell them about Cynthia, Addie, Denise, and Carole. Tell them that when they are reconciled to me, they can be reconciled to each other.”

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

My hope for this country: An ambitious strategy towards reconciling ourselves to the planet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

He and his wife separated after the affair came to light, but were working on reconciling.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2026

Now, the two chambers will work on fine-tuning and reconciling both bills into one proposal and sending it to President Trump’s desk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

His supporters credit him with reconciling the country reviving Tajik culture after the civil war and decades of Soviet rule.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

I suppose it’s not odd, then, that I have trouble reconciling my life to those of my friends, or at least to their lives as I perceive them to be.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt




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