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
If the issue isn’t reconcilable, or if talking to your colleague directly didn’t work, tap the chain of command—but be sure to have a solution in mind.
From Time • Jun. 20, 2017
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
The necessity of evacuating the cylinder as completely as possible is, nevertheless, not always reconcilable with local surroundings.
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