reconcilable

Example Sentences

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But post pandemic and post energy crisis, the priorities of three years ago may not be fully reconcilable with the immediate tough decisions now required.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2022

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

Interpretation is a swan-dive into an ocean of possibilities, all of them entrancingly plausible, and none quite reconcilable.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2017

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

Changed "reconcilable" to "reconcileable" on page 240: "not easily reconcileable."

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by Mill, John Stuart