reconcile
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The president tries to reconcile restrainers and hawks with his strategic goals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
He is struggling to reconcile the man who he believes killed his sister with the man he has known and loved for nearly 40 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
A similar tension shadows how we reconcile what Winfrey means to American culture.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Sellars finds it hard to reconcile this woman, whom she has only known to be kind and protective, with the person who committed a heinous crime 31 years ago.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Having discovered almost by accident that elliptical orbits fit the observations well, he could not reconcile them with his idea that the planets were made to orbit the sun by magnetic forces.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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Investors are waiting to hear how Fed Chair Kevin Warsh reconciles his patient approach to rate policy with his backing of the 2% target.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
There is nothing that reconciles those two decisions through any logic or law.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026
More like a short story, recounting the evening from Hart’s point of view as he reconciles with the fact that his former creative partner Richard Rodgers has created a hit with Oscar Hammerstein.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
Meanwhile, back in Cousins, Massachusetts, Jeremiah ends up with Denise and reconciles with his dad.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
It represents the seated figure of a little boy, and almost reconciles us to the strictly inadmissible invasion of color into the abstract domain of sculpture.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
The question for the chancellor is whether better consumer and business spirits can be reconciled with the need for a "challenging" Budget?
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Phobos' present-day gravity field, shape, density, spectral properties, and changing orbit must all be reconciled within a single geophysical model.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
"That includes several audits. They have now reconciled their historical data, and recently they published a revised bulletin with the historical data, incorporating the findings of the debt," she said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
The two eventually reconciled, though Feinstein stuck with members of the team that replaced Reilly and helped guide her to successive terms in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
The delayed recognition of the gene as the answer to the central problem of biology had a strange consequence: genetics had to be reconciled with other major fields of biology as an afterthought.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The researchers had already published work aimed at reconciling argon-argon dating with uranium-lead dating, the two methods most widely used to determine the ages of rocks.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
The challenge of reconciling the dilemma was even more formidable than the Protestant ideal of literacy that expected converts to read the Bible and sing out of the Psalter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
He and his wife separated after the affair came to light, but were working on reconciling.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2026
The film portrays the difficulty Lilia has in reconciling her sexual orientation with her cultural and familial roots.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
She claims there is a fire-breathing paper dragon somewhere in the tent, and though Bailey believes her, he has difficulty reconciling in his head the idea of paper that breathes fire.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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