reconcile
verb (used with object)
to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired.
reconciled
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past participleof reconcile.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof reconcile.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
reconcileverb (used with object)to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired.
Example Sentences
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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
Graham reconciled their relationship and backed his re-election bid.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 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
The House and Senate haven’t reconciled differences in separate housing bills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
Journalists inevitably asked Fischer about the risks associated with the kind of climbing he did and wondered how he reconciled it with being a husband and father.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
