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Dwayne Johnson’s performance in “The Smashing Machine,” for all the film’s flaws, cleverly reconciled the dissonance between the outward images of masculine power and internal feelings of self-loathing.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

He wrote back, and they reconciled in person when he came to see her in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

The House and Senate haven’t reconciled differences in separate housing bills.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

He was, however, understood to have privately reconciled with his children in the last years of his life.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 19, 2026

At first he thought it might be his sadness over the condidon of his room which kept him from eadng, but he very soon became reconciled to the alteradons in his room.

From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka