reconcile
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Later, I was able to reconcile myself with the notion that Mexican music and the records that I listened to as a child are a big part of my identity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Federal law requires every recipient to file a tax return at the end of the year and reconcile what he received against what he was actually owed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
“She has helped me quite a bit reconcile letting go of what I thought my career trajectory was going to be and embracing a new one,” Hodge said.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
He subsequently said he wanted to reconcile with his father.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
What if Isa and Benny didn’t reconcile before they moved?
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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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
With key data blacked out by the government shutdown, officials lacked the usual information that often reconciles differences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 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
If her daughters-in-law turn out querulous, and fall out one with another, which is not unfrequently the case, she reconciles them by the panacea of gentle remonstrance.
From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Shib Chunder Bose
The two eventually reconciled, though Feinstein stuck with members of the team that replaced Reilly and helped guide her to successive terms in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Graham reconciled their relationship and backed his re-election bid.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
There is no such provision in the corresponding Senate bill, which will have to be reconciled with the House bill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Dwayne Johnson’s performance in “The Smashing Machine,” for all the film’s flaws, cleverly reconciled the dissonance between the outward images of masculine power and internal feelings of self-loathing.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
By evening Nhamo was almost reconciled to the situation.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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My hope for this country: An ambitious strategy towards reconciling ourselves to the planet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
“When heirs cannot reach a unanimous decision, the executor’s role becomes pivotal. Executors are tasked with reconciling conflicts,” Hancock Whitney adds.
From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026
"Nuclear power is key to reconciling both independence -- and thus energy sovereignty -- with decarbonisation, and thus carbon neutrality," Macron said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 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
Instead of reconciling these contradictory observations, he had laid the issue before his colleagues.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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