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
  • Much of the focus of the build was reconciliation from apartheid, and the project was part of Carter's aim to build 1,000 homes in Africa, Shaw said.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Can there be any reconciliation between game and frame, the black box and the white cube?
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 30 June 2023
  • Wes seems to doubt there's a chance at reconciliation for those two down the road.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 8 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • None of that will show up in the scoring holding things up as House Democrats push the reconciliation across the finish line.
    — Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Now is this the price of your involvement in new talks on a reconciliation bill with Democrats and with the president?
    — NBC News, 6 Mar. 2022
  • As recently as 2015 the Army argued that the names did not honor the rebel cause but were a gesture of reconciliation with the South.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2022
  • Has it been made clear that there is no chance for reconciliation?
    — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
  • But that’s a problem for the Senate—along with figuring out how to ensure the bill fits the strict rules for the reconciliation process—and this week, the focus is on the House.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • They were largely shut out of that bill, with the promise that they would be taken care of in the reconciliation package.
    — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • But when the House released the reconciliation text on Thursday, the fragment was still there.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • The Senate instructions for the reconciliation bill say that only half of it has to be paid for.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Baseball had its chance to achieve some form of reconciliation with that past.
    — Christina Kahrl, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The objective of the reconciliation bill is tax breaks for the top 1% of the nation’s wealthy and for corporations.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2025
  • After a brief reconciliation in May, the two called it quits for the final time in October that year.
    — Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Senate Democrats are going to try to pass the second bill through a process known as reconciliation.
    — Sarah D. Wire Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Democrats hope to pass the bill on a party line vote through budget reconciliation.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Next week promises to be another exciting week as the Senate tackles the reconciliation bill—so stay tuned.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • Thune, who has in mind an optimistic deadline of July 4 to pass a budget reconciliation measure that would embody Trump’s key tax and spending policies, can only lose a maximum of three votes.
    — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 23 May 2025

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