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

Interpretation is a swan-dive into an ocean of possibilities, all of them entrancingly plausible, and none quite reconcilable.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2017

In the end, both approaches by themselves fall short, but taken together, and kept in balance, are valid and reconcilable.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2014

Hence it is that fiction is often more truthful than biography; and it is obvious enough that it ought to be so, if it deal only with materials that are reconcilable with the general experience.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various