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

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

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

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

The whole Consular service is a beggarly concern, and the only thing reconcilable about it is when there is, as in my own case, nothing to do.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund