reconcile
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His young Americans are struggling to reconcile their dreams and ideals with some hard realities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
How should I reconcile the value of that work with everything you’ve described?
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
"It's in the interest of both King Charles and Prince William to reconcile with Harry," said royal historian Ed Owens.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
If we ever reconcile, the estate plan can always be changed.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Dreams were his brain’s way of processing them all, and now it was struggling to reconcile the girl from the dream with the one in the mural.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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There is nothing that reconciles those two decisions through any logic or law.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026
Until this hypothetical key to the mysteries puts a bow on string theory and reconciles quantum and classical mechanics, don’t bother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 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
Now as with outward necessity, so also with inward; nothing reconciles so thoroughly as a distinct knowledge of it.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
"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 star has previously said that "for a really long time" she had perceived Christopher as one of her "biggest enemies" - but they reconciled before his death.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Dwayne Johnson’s performance in “The Smashing Machine,” for all the film’s flaws, cleverly reconciled the dissonance between the outward images of masculine power and internal feelings of self-loathing.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
She seemed not only to acquiesce, to be reconciled to her life and marriage, but to be actually proud of it.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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My hope for this country: An ambitious strategy towards reconciling ourselves to the planet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 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
“When heirs cannot reach a unanimous decision, the executor’s role becomes pivotal. Executors are tasked with reconciling conflicts,” Hancock Whitney adds.
From MarketWatch ● May 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
What comes next is even more difficult: reconciling the new information with what we already know, or think we do.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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