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

In my view, this convergence of opinion ought to be a source of strength – even if we have little else that feels reconcilable.

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2016

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

If it is not; and if our scheme of liberty is perfectly consistent and reconcilable with it; then it infers nothing, and is nothing, that is opposed to what we hold.

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor