Explore Reconcile through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like conciliate or harmonize. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Reconcile meaning
- To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony.
- To make things compatible or consistent.
- To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
Synonyms of Reconcile
Using Reconcile
- The main meaning on this page is: To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony. | To make things compatible or consistent. | To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
- Useful related words include: conciliate, harmonize, harmonise, concord.
- In the example corpus, reconcile often appears in combinations such as: to reconcile, reconcile with, reconcile the.
Context around Reconcile
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Reconcile
- In this selection, "reconcile" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, must, ntsako, conflicting, challenging and cheap stand out and add context to how "reconcile" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aimed to reconcile challenging situations and and ntsako reconcile hinting they. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "reconcile" sits close to words such as blended, headset and insurgency, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with reconcile
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Others argue it takes years to reconcile abuse. (8 words)
However, you can reconcile your spending without digital tools. (9 words)
Luckily, Mati and Ntsako reconcile, hinting they will change their clans' futures. (12 words)
I found that very difficult to reconcile, especially when I put my position on the voice out there well before the last election, so I believed that I had more of a mandate on it than the Federal National Party did. (41 words)
It has continued to move slowly as the Royals try to reconcile their needs with those of the two counties and the Kansas City Chiefs, who have shared the lease with Jackson County to help pay for Arrowhead Stadium. (39 words)
Over the years, the word “utopian” has peppered descriptions of the artist’s practice: If we could simply come together over a meal, we could reconcile our differences — we could recognize one another’s humanity. (35 words)
Ibrahim asked, “How do we reconcile the race for Senate presidency when you claimed the elections were rigged? (18 words)
Example sentences (20)
A bicameral conference committee hearing was held on Wednesday to reconcile conflicting provisions between the chambers’ versions of the contentious proposal.
A deficit that has run into hundreds of millions of pounds, cuts to essential services, and a community struggling to reconcile with its local government’s financial imprudence.
Beijing and Washington have two different visions for what a “stabilized” relationship would look like, and they will be difficult to reconcile.
Cabel was the middle child: he acted as both a bridge and a spark, always aimed to reconcile challenging situations and moved on with ease and grace.
Franke, who has been held without bail since her arrest, is trying to reconcile with family members by undertaking "personal growth and rehabilitation", according to a statement released by her law firm on Friday.
Having a third party can help thrash out issues and provide strategies for building trust and trying to reconcile.
Having failed to reconcile and put their house in order, their party failed to retain power.
He claimed that the need to reconcile cheap accommodation for homeless people with “expensive” fire precautions was “insoluble”.
He is a man who does his best to reconcile the orders he’s given with what he believes in.
House and Senate budget leaders now must reconcile their differences into one state operating budget to be adopted before session ends April 23rd.
However, you can reconcile your spending without digital tools.
I ask what message she’d like to give a parent who might be struggling to reconcile long-held beliefs about gender or sexuality with the world they now find themselves in.
Ibrahim asked, “How do we reconcile the race for Senate presidency when you claimed the elections were rigged?
I found that very difficult to reconcile, especially when I put my position on the voice out there well before the last election, so I believed that I had more of a mandate on it than the Federal National Party did.
It has continued to move slowly as the Royals try to reconcile their needs with those of the two counties and the Kansas City Chiefs, who have shared the lease with Jackson County to help pay for Arrowhead Stadium.
Luckily, Mati and Ntsako reconcile, hinting they will change their clans' futures.
No punishment could ever change the fact that our country is so divided that it may take generations to reconcile.
One agency says this and other agencies say otherwise – by simply focusing on specific sectors as though they do not have to reconcile the overall statistics.
Others argue it takes years to reconcile abuse.
Over the years, the word “utopian” has peppered descriptions of the artist’s practice: If we could simply come together over a meal, we could reconcile our differences — we could recognize one another’s humanity.
Common combinations with reconcile
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: