reconcile
verb (used with object)
to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired.
have reconciled
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present perfectof reconcile.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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A new study published in the journal Current Biology claims to have reconciled the dispute, thanks to an exceptionally rare, nearly complete porcupine skeleton discovered in Florida.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
He and county leaders appear to have reconciled.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2023
The Brooklyn Nets attempts, albeit half-hearted, to trade star forward Kevin Durant have ended with the organization releasing a statement saying the two sides have reconciled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
This section cosmological arguments for the existence of God as well as how philosophers have reconciled the existence of God with the presence of evil in the world.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genuine organism—with two billion years of the pressure to live and evolve hagriding it—could never have reconciled itself to.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
