How to Use reconciliation in a Sentence

reconciliation

noun
  • 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
  • And do this with your husband, as too much of the work of reconciliation often falls to mom.
    R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 15 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • There’s going to have to be some kind of truth and reconciliation.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 20 June 2024
  • There was a chance after that moment, there could have been a bit of a reconciliation.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The ads on the reconciliation bill are not the first time United for Clean Power has used this strategy to stymie Democrats.
    Yeganeh Torbati, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Part of the problem with the program is that it was passed as part of the reconciliation process which prevented guardrails from being put in place.
    Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Baseball had its chance to achieve some form of reconciliation with that past.
    Christina Kahrl, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Democrats hope to pass the bill on a party line vote through budget reconciliation.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The pair split briefly due to a text miscommunication, but a chance run-in at the airport led to a reconciliation.
    Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024
  • 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
  • Merging the Senate bill and the House bill has been proceeding through a process called reconciliation.
    Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • Prior to the strikes, there were hopeful signs in the reconciliation effort.
    Bassem Mroue, ajc, 23 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Along with handling the reconciliation of game day statements, and reporting to the league how much revenue was coming in, McLean was busy rooting for the team as one of the Storm’s biggest fans.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Instead, this reconciliation feels fresh, fun — and hits like a goddamn freight train.
    Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Though Izzy resists his unassuming charms at first, passing Sam off to a girlfriend, eventually, realizations and regrets give way to a happy reconciliation.
    Vogue, 10 Sep. 2024

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