reconcilable

Example Sentences

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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

Still, at the same meeting, there were hints that some members of staff have attitudes that might not be reconcilable to life within a secular state primary school.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2014

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

But the Imperial policy was not reconcilable with the idea of suffering this important inheritance to fall into the hands of a Hungarian noble.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 by Various