Reconcile
verb
To make one thing compatible with another.
He has struggled to reconcile his political beliefs with his religious beliefs.
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- reconcile differences
- reconcile interests
verb
To become friends again after a fight or disagreement.
They had a big fight, but they were able to reconcile.
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- reconcile with someone
- reconcile after a fight
verb
To make or prove consistent with.
She was trying to reconcile her ledger
Often appears as...
- reconcile accounts
- reconcile the budget
Usage tips
Informal
Financial
verb
To make oneself accept something.
He finally reconciled himself to the change in management.
Often appears as...
- reconcile oneself to something
- reconcile oneself to a situation
verb
To make one thing compatible with another.
He has struggled to reconcile his political beliefs with his religious beliefs.
Often appears as...
- reconcile differences
- reconcile interests
verb
To become friends again after a fight or disagreement.
They had a big fight, but they were able to reconcile.
Often appears as...
- reconcile with someone
- reconcile after a fight
verb
To make or prove consistent with.
She was trying to reconcile her ledger
Often appears as...
- reconcile accounts
- reconcile the budget
Usage tips
Informal
Financial
verb
To make oneself accept something.
He finally reconciled himself to the change in management.
Often appears as...
- reconcile oneself to something
- reconcile oneself to a situation
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Compatibility Effort
When you reconcile things like beliefs, you make them exist together without conflict.
She works hard to reconcile her career and family life.
Pro Tip 2/2Beyond Simple Fix
Reconciling often implies a deeper resolution, not just a quick or surface-level fix.
The CEO's challenge was to reconcile the company's values with its actions.
Pro Tip 1/2Compatibility Effort
When you reconcile things like beliefs, you make them exist together without conflict.
She works hard to reconcile her career and family life.
Pro Tip 2/2Beyond Simple Fix
Reconciling often implies a deeper resolution, not just a quick or surface-level fix.
The CEO's challenge was to reconcile the company's values with its actions.
Pro Tip 1/2Compatibility Effort
When you reconcile things like beliefs, you make them exist together without conflict.
She works hard to reconcile her career and family life.
Pro Tip 2/2Beyond Simple Fix
Reconciling often implies a deeper resolution, not just a quick or surface-level fix.
The CEO's challenge was to reconcile the company's values with its actions.
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Exploring other...
A fourth dimension is very difficult to reconcile with our experience of the world. Short of being lifted into the fourth dimension by visiting hypercube, we can't experience it, but we can get close. You'll recall that when the sphere first visited the second dimension, he looked like a series of circles that started as a point
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How to raise a Black son...
Normal things about being a kid and realizing that sometimes, it was best to listen to my parents even when I didn't exactly understand why. And it's not that they didn't want me to think critically. Their parenting always sought to reconcile the tension between having my siblings and I understand the realities of the world,
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Letting go of outdated...
courage and you tell them you are in the right place and the decision you have made is the right decision then we will take you to school and you educate them and you give them security and safety but you also try and reconcile them with their families so when Jacqueline graduated you said to her it's time to
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What did democracy...
But today the word has such positive associations, that vastly different regimes claim to embody it. At the same time, some share Plato's skepticism about the wisdom of crowds. Many modern democracies reconcile this conflict by having citizens elect those they consider qualified
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The secret to desire in...
you get the gist. For journey, for travel. So reconciling our need for security and our need for adventure into one relationship, or what we today like to call a passionate marriage, used to be a contradiction in terms. Marriage was an economic institution
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First Look: The Long...
that you never forget about, no matter how much you want to. Reconciling these memories can be the work of a lifetime. Simply revisiting them takes an uncommon bravery. Everybody was scared. I mean, we're all human. I thought I was gonna die that day.
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Rethinking infidelity...
So how do we reconcile what is universally forbidden, yet universally practiced? Now, throughout history, men practically had a license to cheat with little consequence, and supported by a host of biological and evolutionary theories
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Todd Humphreys: How to...
and yet, given the lack of effective legal means for protecting our privacy from the GPS dot, can you really blame people for wanting to turn them on, for wanting to use them? I hold out hope that we'll be able to reconcile
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Ultimate Horsepower in...
horsepower so today so I would love to see one of these guys a horse galloping slow-mo that sounds fantastic we got here and we've got street artists would you reconcile what do we have to
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"Everything happens for...
and magical floating feelings. I see that the world is jolted by events that are wonderful and terrible, gorgeous and tragic. I can't reconcile the contradiction,
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Exploring other...
A fourth dimension is very difficult to reconcile with our experience of the world. Short of being lifted into the fourth dimension by visiting hypercube, we can't experience it, but we can get close. You'll recall that when the sphere first visited the second dimension, he looked like a series of circles that started as a point
Video examples
How to raise a Black son...
Normal things about being a kid and realizing that sometimes, it was best to listen to my parents even when I didn't exactly understand why. And it's not that they didn't want me to think critically. Their parenting always sought to reconcile the tension between having my siblings and I understand the realities of the world,
Video examples
Letting go of outdated...
courage and you tell them you are in the right place and the decision you have made is the right decision then we will take you to school and you educate them and you give them security and safety but you also try and reconcile them with their families so when Jacqueline graduated you said to her it's time to
Video examples
What did democracy...
But today the word has such positive associations, that vastly different regimes claim to embody it. At the same time, some share Plato's skepticism about the wisdom of crowds. Many modern democracies reconcile this conflict by having citizens elect those they consider qualified
Video examples
The secret to desire in...
you get the gist. For journey, for travel. So reconciling our need for security and our need for adventure into one relationship, or what we today like to call a passionate marriage, used to be a contradiction in terms. Marriage was an economic institution
Video examples
First Look: The Long...
that you never forget about, no matter how much you want to. Reconciling these memories can be the work of a lifetime. Simply revisiting them takes an uncommon bravery. Everybody was scared. I mean, we're all human. I thought I was gonna die that day.
Video examples
Rethinking infidelity...
So how do we reconcile what is universally forbidden, yet universally practiced? Now, throughout history, men practically had a license to cheat with little consequence, and supported by a host of biological and evolutionary theories
Video examples
Todd Humphreys: How to...
and yet, given the lack of effective legal means for protecting our privacy from the GPS dot, can you really blame people for wanting to turn them on, for wanting to use them? I hold out hope that we'll be able to reconcile
Video examples
Ultimate Horsepower in...
horsepower so today so I would love to see one of these guys a horse galloping slow-mo that sounds fantastic we got here and we've got street artists would you reconcile what do we have to
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"Everything happens for...
and magical floating feelings. I see that the world is jolted by events that are wonderful and terrible, gorgeous and tragic. I can't reconcile the contradiction,
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Ronald Reagan
American President
The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities - which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.
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Noreena Hertz
English Author
It's not that I am against the rich giving money to charities. I'm all for it, and we should think of ways of encouraging more of it. But I also believe that states, rather than individuals, are ultimately a better bet for delivering a fair and just world and reconciling differing interests.
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Thaksin Shinawatra
Politician
If you cannot reconcile the difference between the elite that stay behind the scene and the right of the people, that's going to be forever chaos. It's time to compromise, to allow more democracy. Those who are stay behind the scenes must hand off and observe the law.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
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Reese Witherspoon
American Actress
There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don't have time for hate or negativity in my life. There's no room for it.
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Ian Mcewan
British Author
Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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Stephen Fry
British Comedian
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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Marie Curie
Polish Scientist
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
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J. William Fulbright
American Politician
The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.
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N. T. Wright
British Clergyman
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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Ronald Reagan
American President
The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities - which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.
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Noreena Hertz
English Author
It's not that I am against the rich giving money to charities. I'm all for it, and we should think of ways of encouraging more of it. But I also believe that states, rather than individuals, are ultimately a better bet for delivering a fair and just world and reconciling differing interests.
Quote examples
Thaksin Shinawatra
Politician
If you cannot reconcile the difference between the elite that stay behind the scene and the right of the people, that's going to be forever chaos. It's time to compromise, to allow more democracy. Those who are stay behind the scenes must hand off and observe the law.
Quote examples
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
Quote examples
Reese Witherspoon
American Actress
There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don't have time for hate or negativity in my life. There's no room for it.
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Ian Mcewan
British Author
Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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Stephen Fry
British Comedian
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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Marie Curie
Polish Scientist
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
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J. William Fulbright
American Politician
The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.
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N. T. Wright
British Clergyman
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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