reconcile
verb (used with object)
to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired.
reconciles
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present tense formof reconcile (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Remembering this time they shared, Travolta works through the memories of his mother, and reconciles the good with the not-so-great.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
There is nothing that reconciles those two decisions through any logic or law.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026
With key data blacked out by the government shutdown, officials lacked the usual information that often reconciles differences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
More like a short story, recounting the evening from Hart’s point of view as he reconciles with the fact that his former creative partner Richard Rodgers has created a hit with Oscar Hammerstein.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
Nevertheless, the story of the Fall of Man, of which that theology, in its fundamentally true part, is a reasoned expression, is the one thing, Schopenhauer avows, that reconciles him to the Old Testament.
From Schopenhauer by Thomas Whittaker
