Sample Sentences for
reconcile
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reconcile as in:  reconciled their differences

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    The treaty helped reconcile the two countries after years of conflict.
    reconcile = made peace or restored friendship
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    It took time, but she eventually reconciled with her brother after their big argument.
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    He has tried so hard, poor boy, to reconcile Gershom's ideas with his own bringing up.  (source)
    reconcile = make compatible
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    "reconciliation," she said. "Athena and Poseidon together."  (source)
    Reconciliation = end the conflict (bring them into agreement)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    I couldn't reconcile his world with mine so I separated them.  (source)
    reconcile = make compatible
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    Mother and son, reconciled.  (source)
    reconciled = made up and on good terms again (brought into agreement)
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    For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely.  (source)
    reconciling = settling
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    But to depend on a government that must, itself, depend on thirteen other governments to fulfill its contracts would require a credulity rarely seen in the monetary transactions of mankind and unreconcilable with the usual sharp-sightedness of avarice.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreconcilable means not and reverses the meaning of reconcilable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    They just had a flaming row about it and have entered the "oh, my sweet Putti" and "darling Kerli" stage of reconciliation.  (source)
    reconciliation = making up (after a disagreement)
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    Over the years, I met Norman a few times and he always tried to reconcile, but I didn't accept it.  (source)
    reconcile = make up (reach agreement on differences)
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    Both her parents died a few years ago, without ever being reconciled with their daughter.  (source)
    reconciled = restored to a good relationship after a period of estrangement or conflict
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    These were the circumstances and the hopes which gradually brought their alleviation to Sir Thomas, deadening his sense of what was lost, and in part reconciling him to himself; though the anguish arising from the conviction of his own errors in the education of his daughters was never to be entirely done away.  (source)
    reconciling = making up (after disagreement)
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    I thought of the little boy who hugged me outside of church, creating reconciliation and love.  (source)
    reconciliation = restoring harmony and peace
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reconcile as in:  reconciled herself to

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After the accident, she had to reconcile herself to life without loving parents.
reconcile = come to terms with
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    Though she didn't like the class, she reconciled herself to making the best of it so it would not keep her from college.
    reconciled = came to terms with
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    After all these months of trying to reconcile what I wanted and hoped for, I realized then—in this moment Maxon created just for us—that it would never make sense.  (source)
    reconcile = make compatible
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    I was really only trying to reconcile myself to the realities of Herbert's death.  (source)
    reconcile = come to accept (something undesired)
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    "But by all accounts," continued Glebnikov, "you seem to have reconciled yourself to your situation."  (source)
    reconciled = came to terms with (accepted something undesired)
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    Yet I can't reconcile the image before me with the handsome Tribesman I danced with.  (source)
    reconcile = make compatible
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    He lifted his chin as if reconciling himself to the decision.†  (source)
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    Stupid and cunning, ruthless and magnanimous-and that there must be some dominating factor that reconciles his two natures.†  (source)
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    We might think that the proof of some of these facts standing by themselves was subject to doubt by reason of unsatisfactory or contradictory evidence, and that other occurrences might be so explained or interpreted as to be reconcilable with innocence.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    But unpopularity is often a compliment—and Guenever, though she lived tempestuously and finally died in an unreconciled sort of way—she was not cut out for religion, as Lancelot was—was never insignificant.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreconciled means not and reverses the meaning of reconciled. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    These days I script whole fights, in my head, and the reconciliations afterwards too.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    Here we shall perceive there have been other flocks than those of our fold; that those we have excommunicated have been taken into that superior communion; and, in a word, that those contradicting notions and principles which we thought inconsistent with true religion, we shall then find reconcileable to themselves, to one another, and to the fountain of truth.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" in reconcileable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    It might be a question, why there are such differences in religious points, and why these breaches should be more hot and irreconcileable?†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irreconcileable means not and reverses the meaning of reconcileable. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
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    In a way it was good because it reconciled her to things.  (source)
    reconciled = brought to terms (made compatible)
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