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reconcile

[rek-uhn-sahyl] / ˈrɛk ənˌsaɪl /




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She initially hoped to reconcile pressure from her parents to go into medicine with her sports fandom by becoming a team doctor for the Green Bay Packers.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

"That's why it's urgent to foster closer cooperation between the parties to reconcile construction projects with federal legislation on fossils and promote new discoveries while ensuring the proper preservation of our heritage," Mayer comments.

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 2026

How should I reconcile the value of that work with everything you’ve described?

From Slate Aug. 22, 2026

"I think William doesn't care about the pressure to reconcile," said royal author, Valentine Low.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Separation is familiar, too familiar, but Celia is uncertain she can reconcile it with permanence.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

It reconciles the sharp antithesis between the active and the contemplative life.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede

Graham reconciled their relationship and backed his re-election bid.

From Barron's Jul. 12, 2026

My father and I eventually reconciled at his house a few years after I signed with the Braves.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 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

Despite experiencing periods of painful distance, Verhoeven reconciled with his father before his death.

From BBC May 22, 2026

She seems somehow more reconciled; or else the very subject seems to have become repugnant to her, for when any accidental allusion is made she actually shudders.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

The track finds mother and daughter writing to each other about their relationship, reconciling the effects Madonna’s fame had on her firstborn child.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

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

The film portrays the difficulty Lilia has in reconciling her sexual orientation with her cultural and familial roots.

From Barron's Feb. 16, 2026

The scientific problem that engrossed Fisher also involved reconciling biology’s “mind” with its “eye.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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