How to Use reconcile in a Sentence

reconcile

verb
  • It can be difficult to reconcile your ideals with reality.
  • Work and life does not reconcile, so get rid of that.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 22 June 2026
  • Trump was not ready to reconcile.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 20 Oct. 2025
  • But is there not a piece of you that wants to reconcile with your sister?
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Enoch soars as a man who can’t quite reconcile what his life has become.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
  • People felt like there wouldn’t be time to reconcile both bills.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Eight years is a heck of a stretch for anyone to go and reconcile with those things.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Got punished for a mistake and couldn't reconcile that by the end of the game.
    — The Enquirer, 26 May 2023
  • Dreher wanted to be part of it, and to reconcile with his father.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • But this loss was harder than the others to reconcile.
    — Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2025
  • How can these results be reconciled?
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Donald didn’t have time to reconcile with her anyway.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Critics haven’t been able to reconcile the film’s disparate goals.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The state is working to reconcile the data and hopes to have the issue cleared up next week.
    — Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2020
  • The human condition starts to reconcile things on the way out the door.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 9 Apr. 2026
  • To me that is a loss that can’t really ever be reconciled.
    — A Dialogue, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
  • And that’s the trick, certainly as an actor, is to try to reconcile all of that.
    — Tomris Laffly, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 May 2023
  • The final bill still must be reconciled with the Senate and could change.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
  • That’s a feeling that Ra-Sun tries to reconcile with his work.
    — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Brooks is still trying to reconcile the delays and lack of access.
    — Chris M. Worrell, cleveland, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Those years are now ending, and a crusty but caring Cyrus wants to reconcile.
    — The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The tragedy rocked the world, and a year later, the loss is still difficult to reconcile with.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 27 Jan. 2021
  • The boyfriend moved to Brunswick, but since then has been trying to reconcile with her.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2021
  • But when things go off the rails, can the two brothers reconcile in time to save Christmas?
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2022
  • That’s not all, King Charles could even end up helping his sons reconcile.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 8 Sep. 2025
  • How to reconcile their thesis with the madness of the moment?
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • How exactly does one reconcile the two?
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 June 2026
  • My eyes try to reconcile the city of my birth with the spectacle of destruction.
    — Babak Rahimi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The madness of such doings in a setting this splendid is hard to reconcile.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Or is this the kind of story a child tells himself to reconcile child abuse and even homicide by his father?
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 25 June 2021

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