Thesaurus / irreconcilable
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Its “irreconcilable dichotomy” of wanting to connect people to advance society but also enrich its bottom line.
REVIEW: WHY FACEBOOK CAN NEVER FIX ITSELFKAREN HAOJULY 21, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWTherein lies what the authors say is Facebook’s ugly truth, its “possibly irreconcilable” dual goals of advancing society by connecting the world while also profiting off the people it is connecting.
FACEBOOK’S STRATEGY: AVERT DISASTER, APOLOGIZE AND KEEP GROWINGSUSAN BENKELMANJULY 9, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe last bill, passed Thursday afternoon, would enable federal regulators to sue to break up large tech companies when their role as operator of a platform presents an “irreconcilable conflict of interest” in their other lines of business.
BIG TECH ANTITRUST BILLS PASS FIRST MAJOR HURDLE IN HOUSE EVEN AS OPPOSITION GROWSRACHEL LERMANJUNE 24, 2021WASHINGTON POSTBecause we have returned to a normal relationship with Moscow — meaning we have harsh, and on some issues, irreconcilable differences but can imagine cooperating on some areas where we have overlapping vital interests.
US-RUSSIA RELATIONS: THE NEW NORMAL IS THE OLD NORMALTRACY MORANJUNE 21, 2021OZYThis difference in views between Manchin and much of the rest of the party may be irreconcilable.
WHY JOE MANCHIN IS SO WILLING AND ABLE TO BLOCK HIS PARTY’S GOALSPERRY BACON JR. (PERRY.BACON@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)MARCH 31, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTIt seemed as if my right ankle were about to crack, like Pangaea, into irreconcilable bits.
DID THRU-HIKING THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL RUIN MY BODY?GRAYSON HAVER CURRINJANUARY 25, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEStudents learn that different people had irreconcilable dreams, clashing understandings of what made their country “great.”
WE TEACH STUDENTS HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE U.S., NOT TO LOVE IT — OR HATE ITDANIEL IMMERWAHRDECEMBER 23, 2020WASHINGTON POSTFar from us be all spirit of persecution which would only serve to render them irreconcilable.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)Every religion is but a system imagined for the purpose of reconciling irreconcilable ideas.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIERSome of these excellences are indeed irreconcilable and exclude each other; most of them can only be combined by a compromise.
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKSWORDS RELATED TO IRRECONCILABLE
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