reconcilable

Example Sentences

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But post pandemic and post energy crisis, the priorities of three years ago may not be fully reconcilable with the immediate tough decisions now required.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2022

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

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

Catelyn, maybe more than anyone, shows us the tension between being the matriarch of a house and the mother of children, two roles that are inseparable, but not always reconcilable.

From Time • May 21, 2012

In October, 1880, Smith vindicated before that court his scientific attitude toward the Old Testament, maintaining that a moderate criticism of the biblical books was reconcilable with the maintenance of their inspired authority.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.