reconcilable
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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
Still, at the same meeting, there were hints that some members of staff have attitudes that might not be reconcilable to life within a secular state primary school.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2014
Exploitation and oppression didn't go away, but the system seemed not only powerful and dynamic, but reconcilable with democratic ideals.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2013
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
That all this might be even reconcilable with the fact of his marriage to the woman who had personated the sister, Arthur easily comprehended.
From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert
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