How to Use conciliatory in a Sentence

conciliatory

adjective
  • Iger’s comments were more conciliatory than has past remarks on the strikes.
    — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The conciliatory tone was brand new.
    — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Yet his more conciliatory approach has so far elicited scorn or silence.
    — Andrei Lankov, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Cobb said the applicant should be conciliatory about the offense and then promote their good acts since the crime.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • But whether the buttoned-up or conciliatory responses are the right tack is still an open question.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The two also struck somewhat conciliatory tones at times.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Cohen reached out his arms and laughed in a conciliatory gesture, but the Queen of pop wasn't finished with him.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
  • A day after being sworn in, Rodríguez tried to strike a more conciliatory tone.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Even a conciliatory note from Lennon failed to mend relations.
    — Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Bowlsby struck a conciliatory note on the new conference while throwing a little shade on the side.
    — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Still, there were also hints of a more conciliatory approach to past enemies.
    — Damien Cave, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Nuno himself spoke in a noticeably more conciliatory tone in the pre-match press conference for this game that same day.
    — Paul Taylor, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
  • In a conciliatory masterclass with regard to streamers, that message came across loud and clear.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Two young lads — one English, one Spanish — show how it should be done by sharing a conciliatory chat.
    — Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 15 July 2024
  • This might suggest that Longo would be inclined to adopt a conciliatory, soft-touch approach, but that has very much not been the case.
    — Christopher Hooks, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • Here, women played a conciliatory role.
    — Time, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Chait adopted a conciliatory tone, addressing union leaders — who were not present.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The government’s earlier conciliatory approach may been prompted by the scale of the protest, the largest in about a decade.
    — Elisha Bala-Gbogbo, Bloomberg.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Kennedy himself took a more conciliatory—and sometimes avoidant—approach to civil rights issues early in his term.
    — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
  • What’s surprising is how conciliatory the other four band members are to Yorke.
    — Chuck Klosterman, SPIN, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Instead, Rubio offered a more conciliatory tone than allies have grown used to.
    — Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026
  • In their joint statement Wednesday, the district and the station struck a conciliatory tone.
    — Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 14 May 2026
  • And some officials have struck a conciliatory tone when responding to the unrest.
    — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The summit comes just days after the two leaders signaled their conciliatory approach to each other.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Iran's response to this latest pause from the White House was hardly conciliatory.
    — Willem Marx, NPR, 23 May 2026
  • The two were perfectly positioned to shift to a more conciliatory approach.
    — Jomana Karadsheh and Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Bilton attempted to set a conciliatory tone at Monday's meeting — his first with the show.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 3 June 2026
  • Despite the brief threat to its marquee event, the company struck a conciliatory tone in its Monday statement about the talks.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The White House later changed course and adopted a more conciliatory approach as uproar over the shooting grew.
    — Zac Anderson, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The move was notable, in part, because Harvard had spent the past year in a cautious, conciliatory crouch to try to ward off just that kind of scrutiny.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2025

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