reconcile

In a sentence

Six example sentences with reconcile, each labelled with its topic.

• The bookkeeper could not reconcile the two ledgers until she found a payment entered twice in different months.

  Finance

• The two founders reconciled after eight silent years and played the old songs together at a small charity show.

  Music

• Nobody could reconcile the telescope readings with the laboratory measurements until someone noticed the clock had drifted two seconds.

  Science

• Philosophers still struggle to reconcile free will with a universe where every event follows from the last.

  Philosophy

• The two parties reconciled after the flood, passing a relief bill together after a year of shouting across the chamber.

  Politics

• The star and the coach reconciled over the summer, and by training camp they were running drills side by side.

  Basketball

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