reconcilable
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Overall though, Sir Simon says: "I'm not taking sides. I think the answer is to get both sides round the table. A lot of what seem to be irreconcilable differences are actually reconcilable."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Again, these characters are not people I analyze; they’re pieces of verbal artifice I invent, and whose almost limitless complications I try—again, using words—to make reconcilable.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018
In my view, this convergence of opinion ought to be a source of strength – even if we have little else that feels reconcilable.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2016
Catelyn, maybe more than anyone, shows us the tension between being the matriarch of a house and the mother of children, two roles that are inseparable, but not always reconcilable.
From Time ● May 21, 2012
But the Imperial policy was not reconcilable with the idea of suffering this important inheritance to fall into the hands of a Hungarian noble.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 by Various
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