reconcile
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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
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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
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
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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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