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Six example sentences with conciliatory, each labelled with its topic.
The governor struck a conciliatory tone, praising the strikers' patience before mentioning the budget at all.
Politics
A conciliatory email and a partial refund kept the account that the sales team had already written off.
Business
A conciliatory gesture early in an argument lowers both voices faster than any amount of careful reasoning.
Psychology
The mediator opened with a conciliatory summary of what both sides agreed on before touching the disputed clause.
Law
The coach's conciliatory words after the loss praised the effort first and saved the criticism for practice.
Basketball
The king's conciliatory letter to the rebels offered a pardon, and most of them went home before the harvest.
History
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