reconcile
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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
It had taken another death to reconcile them; Lyanna's death, and the grief they had shared over her passing.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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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
Another early highlight, Reliquia, chops and splices a chamber quartet into unrecognisable electronic patterns, as Rosalía reconciles herself to the idea that she loves too hard, and locates the beauty in that vulnerability.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
One circumstance reconciles me to this delay—the weather.
From Charlotte Bront? A Monograph by T. Wemyss Reid
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
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
Graham reconciled their relationship and backed his re-election bid.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
The two Founding Fathers and former presidents had been political rivals but famously reconciled in their later years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
It reconciled us some to our trips to visit her.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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The researchers had already published work aimed at reconciling argon-argon dating with uranium-lead dating, the two methods most widely used to determine the ages of rocks.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
The track finds mother and daughter writing to each other about their relationship, reconciling the effects Madonna’s fame had on her firstborn child.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 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
If food is strangely divisive for the Rubinsteins, art is a reconciling passion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 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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