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What does reconcile mean?

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Verb
  1. To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
  2. To make things compatible or consistent.
  3. To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
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And we certainly cannot reconcile the conflicts about affirmative action preferences without answering these questions.
Educators at all levels need to reconcile rigor and creativity, and to treat them as compatible, coexisting dimensions of intelligence.
Freud struggled to reconcile his notion of unconscious time with his Kantian and Newtonian view of the psyche.
Thus he had a particular reason for wanting to reconcile the historic conflict between the two countries.
The point of religion, he used to say, was to reconcile us to the hollowness, the futility, the nothingness of life.
It's a fondness I can't reconcile with any feminist leanings I might have, so I've learned to embrace it as a guilty pleasure.

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