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

Exploitation and oppression didn't go away, but the system seemed not only powerful and dynamic, but reconcilable with democratic ideals.

From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2013

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

This meaning is, he maintains, easily reconcilable with the idea that all revelation is made to a living mind,—whether that of a race or an individual,—and that the Bible is merely the record of it.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks