reconcile
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“She has helped me quite a bit reconcile letting go of what I thought my career trajectory was going to be and embracing a new one,” Hodge said.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
The prince has since said he wishes to reconcile with his father, but relations appeared frosty on the eve of the visit.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
Jed Shugerman: There is no way a principled originalist can reconcile Slaughter and Cook, but let me try to give the best account for this.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
Scientists working on concepts such as string theory and quantum gravity are attempting to reconcile quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of relativity, one of the biggest unsolved problems in modern physics.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
But the coup the youngest daughter most wanted was to reconcile with her father in a big way.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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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
Driven to the edge of her mind with grief, Ann reconciles her misery with a vow of celibacy.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
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
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 Schopenhauer, Arthur
Graham reconciled their relationship and backed his re-election bid.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
The two Founding Fathers and former presidents had been political rivals but famously reconciled in their later years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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
It found that expenditure on the card had been "fully reconciled", and that the "limited number of personal expenses had been adequately explained and reimbursed".
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
Both her parents died a few years ago, without ever being reconciled with their daughter.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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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
Already, Safdie is back on Marty, leaving Kay somewhere else entirely, reconciling her broken dreams and what may very well be the end of her professional career.
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2025
I had trouble reconciling the definition of the word with the fact that we'd been living in the Bay Area for ten years.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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