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reconcile

[rek-uhn-sahyl] / ˈrɛk ənˌsaɪl /




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The couple called off the divorce and tried to reconcile, and his wife took the children to stay with family in Montana.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

My wife and I are trying to reconcile the financial advice we receive from our advisory team, which is often conservative, with the retirement lifestyle we envision and believe we can comfortably afford.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

How did you reconcile the rock star and new dad halves of your life?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

United still hold his registration and, according to sources close to Old Trafford, the club have made multiple attempts to reconcile the situation as part of their duty of care to the teenager.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Perhaps I might have been able to reconcile myself even to this if I had been able to believe that there was any loving-kindness to be found in the haven I represented.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

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

Remembering this time they shared, Travolta works through the memories of his mother, and reconciles the good with the not-so-great.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 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

But the man of active Morality, willingly suffering for others, provides an example which reconciles millions to the hardships of life.

From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau

Students in Milan and Marseille and Mumbai may well return to school and be reconciled to their lives, at least for now.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

New Keynesianism reconciled old Keynesianism with the Lucas critique so that even with a rational, forward-looking public, fiscal and monetary policy could still work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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

Last week, another emotional documentary chronicling the tour - and featuring the reconciled brothers' first joint interview since their acrimonious split in 2009 - was released in UK cinemas, following its premiere in Venice.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

In time Hattie became reconciled to our marriage and used her connection to us to her best advantage.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

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

Venezuela's interim government and opposition representatives on Wednesday wrapped up a first round of talks aimed at reconciling the nation following the US ouster of longtime leader Nicolas Maduro.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

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

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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