reconcile
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"We therefore have to reconcile modern security requirements with the need to preserve historic buildings and comply with France's heritage regulations," local mayor Théo Caviezel explains.
From BBC ● 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
No definition can reconcile all of these contradictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
That would be difficult to reconcile with the EU's current Common Fisheries Policy.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
“Is this some end-of-the-world thing? You want to find your father and reconcile before your alien friends nuke the planet?”
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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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
Mr. Cawein reconciles us to his strange landscape—the strangeness of which one has to admit is mainly one of nomenclature,—by the exercise of a delightful instinctive pantheism.
From Kentucky Poems by Madison J. Cawein
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
"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
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
The problem, as Donald Trefil has observed, is that "there are two sets of data, from two different disciplines, that cannot be reconciled."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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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 exercises are another step toward reconciling the one-time adversaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
He and his wife separated after the affair came to light, but were working on reconciling.
From Salon ● Feb. 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
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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