How to Use reconciliation in a Sentence

reconciliation

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  • Signing the trade agreement was praised as an act of reconciliation between the two countries.
  • He contacted us in hopes of a reconciliation.
  • And the one in charge of that reconciliation in the film and TV world is me, the Line Producer.
    — Sevier Crespo, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2023
  • And part of that process, maybe the first part, would be reconciliation and the admission of guilt for the things that went wrong in the past.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2023
  • Can there be any reconciliation between game and frame, the black box and the white cube?
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 30 June 2023
  • One of the joys of being able to make this film for me was this reconciliation as a gift to our daughter.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Growth in God’s Love is the name of the program March 14, which offers Lenten reconciliation.
    — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2023
  • This meant that tabloid sources were correct about the date of the couple's reconciliation.
    — ELLE, 16 Feb. 2023
  • And a few refugees had dared hope that the Arab world reconciliation would be followed by concrete measures to rebuild trust.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2023
  • Is reconciliation between Ted and Michelle on the board as the season heads into its final stretch?
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2023
  • Some of the team’s most fervent fans argued that there could be no reconciliation with Saba.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The impasse drives the two apart for a few billion years before a late, and now human-bodied, reconciliation.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
  • But there are some of us who would find a Steve-Miranda reconciliation not sad but admirable, and maybe even a little thrilling.
    — Nell Beram, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The story blends humor with the heart-wrenching pain of a father-son deathbed reconciliation.
    — oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But the peace and reconciliation community had been facing stiffer head winds well before the shock of Oct. 7.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2023
  • If the 14th Amendment was the Union’s emotional response to the Civil War, those emotions were tempered by time and the spirit of reconciliation.
    — WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The family planned to open a museum in town that would focus on hate crimes and race reconciliation.
    — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Instead, this reconciliation feels fresh, fun — and hits like a goddamn freight train.
    — Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 20 Oct. 2023
  • That’s bad news for Raylan, who’s already dealing with a possible reconciliation with his ex-wife and the fallout from the gunfight at the end of season one.
    — Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 12 July 2023
  • Around 2017, Kennedy said his office told Eckstrom’s team that a full reconciliation would help.
    — Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The pair also posed together while on vacation last summer, though the reconciliation rumors sparked by the photos appeared to be full of hot air in the end.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 28 Aug. 2023
  • In Aion, Carl Jung defines the reconciliation of the syzygy—or the male/female images of the unconscious—like the integration of the shadow aspect of the self, as part of the process towards wholeness.
    — James Reich, SPIN, 8 June 2023
  • Here, the anxieties of the past all hang together in louche reconciliation.
    — Christina Catherine Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • That court argument was settled after a few years, but the men have continued to clash, albeit with brief moments of reconciliation along the way.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The mood instead was one of restoration and hope that in a time of rancor and divide, this gathering could inspire further reconciliation.
    — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
  • On the reconciliation, Cabello said those same thoughts were going through her mind.
    — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
  • That leaves only things that could be achieved through the budget reconciliation process, which bypasses the Senate’s 60-vote threshold.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The comment from Scott has fans wondering if there's a reconciliation ahead, but Scott and Jenner have also remained friends and co-parents.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 2 Apr. 2023
  • After the six-plus months of race riots inspired by Black Lives Matter in 2020, the windows don’t evoke peaceful protest or reconciliation, either.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024
  • With the band enjoying a soft reconciliation due to the rerelease of Stop Making Sense, why not ride that wave a little longer to these enormous screens with limitless potential?
    — Vulture Staff, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2023

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