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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We have reconciled and are now back living together as a couple, but have not remarried.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2025
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 could not have reconciled his approach to coaching and team-building in the era of NIL and the transfer portal.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
They no longer strongly disapprove – they seem to have reconciled themselves to seeing it some kind of minor infraction.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 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
