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reconcile

[rek-uhn-sahyl] / ˈrɛk ənˌsaɪl /




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“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

The prince has since said he wishes to reconcile with his father, but the confusion over where Harry was going to stay in London suggest relations remain difficult.

From Barron's Jul. 7, 2026

Jed Shugerman: There is no way a principled originalist can reconcile Slaughter and Cook, but let me try to give the best account for this.

From Slate Jul. 6, 2026

“There needs to be a real push to reconcile the entire defense industry—make it more efficient, have it produce more of what’s needed,” including air defense, deep precision strike and unmanned systems.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

Bailey stares out at the grey sky with a mixture of comfort and excitement and nervousness that he cannot reconcile.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

There is nothing that reconciles those two decisions through any logic or law.

From Slate Apr. 30, 2026

Until this hypothetical key to the mysteries puts a bow on string theory and reconciles quantum and classical mechanics, don’t bother.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

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

More like a short story, recounting the evening from Hart’s point of view as he reconciles with the fact that his former creative partner Richard Rodgers has created a hit with Oscar Hammerstein.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 5, 2025

The chastisement is not a legitimate satisfaction, an expiation which, comprehended by the culprit, reconciles him in his own eyes with the order that he has violated.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

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

My father and I eventually reconciled at his house a few years after I signed with the Braves.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 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

He returned to Brno reconciled to his destiny as a substitute teacher.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“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

The exercises are another step toward reconciling the one-time adversaries.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 2026

El-Masry said the scene when they imagine the pair reconciling was the moment in the script he knew the movie was one for him.

From BBC Jan. 9, 2026

Already, Safdie is back on Marty, leaving Kay somewhere else entirely, reconciling her broken dreams and what may very well be the end of her professional career.

From Salon Dec. 22, 2025

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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