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Recent Examples of conciliation
The hospital said the EEOC did not approach conciliation in good faith and demanded excessive financial penalties, according to the September response for Kotan’s case.
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Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
Halifax managed to be a senior advisor to both King James and King William, seeking national conciliation.
—David Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
That involved no conciliation that threatened the United States in any way.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026
As part of the three-year conciliation agreement, Louisville Comedy Club will conduct Title VII training for employees and post an equal employment opportunity non-discrimination notice in addition to the monetary damages.
—Caroline Neal, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Mar. 2026
How Anthropic's investors lobby Amodei behind the scenes—either pushing for conciliation or urging it to hold firm—could shape the outcome of the standoff.
—Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
Baker School Dean Marianne Wanamaker described the award as an an attempt to honor those who continue to dare to do the essential work that goes into conciliation and compromise.
—Maria Guinnip, Oklahoman, 18 Feb. 2026
But, as had happened so often in the history of brittle regimes, the dictator’s gesture of conciliation was read as desperation.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
Memphis remained peaceful due in part to the work that began earlier that year when CRS provided conciliation services during a sanitation workers’ strike and met with members of the Black community, religious leaders and gang members to prevent an escalation of violence during the strike.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 10 Jan. 2026
Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
Halifax managed to be a senior advisor to both King James and King William, seeking national conciliation.
—David Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
That involved no conciliation that threatened the United States in any way.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026
As part of the three-year conciliation agreement, Louisville Comedy Club will conduct Title VII training for employees and post an equal employment opportunity non-discrimination notice in addition to the monetary damages.
—Caroline Neal, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Mar. 2026
How Anthropic's investors lobby Amodei behind the scenes—either pushing for conciliation or urging it to hold firm—could shape the outcome of the standoff.
—Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
Baker School Dean Marianne Wanamaker described the award as an an attempt to honor those who continue to dare to do the essential work that goes into conciliation and compromise.
—Maria Guinnip, Oklahoman, 18 Feb. 2026
But, as had happened so often in the history of brittle regimes, the dictator’s gesture of conciliation was read as desperation.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
Memphis remained peaceful due in part to the work that began earlier that year when CRS provided conciliation services during a sanitation workers’ strike and met with members of the Black community, religious leaders and gang members to prevent an escalation of violence during the strike.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 10 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conciliation
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Shortly after liberals and conservatives announced a reconciliation, the colonel orchestrated a new armed uprising, resuming the war.—
Roberto Andrés,
The Dial,
28 May 2026
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There is a real technology opportunity to remove the operational friction—the document chase, the manual reconciliation, the rent-verification cycle that takes 30 days because the data lives in 15 places—without turning the asset into something that trades in seconds.—
Jeromee Johnson,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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After a brief burst of good ratings results, CBS News is once against under a dark cloud of allegations of MAGA appeasement and corporate-overlord overreach.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
27 May 2026
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So was the England of 1939, which horrified Forster with its antisemitism and politics of Nazi appeasement.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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Writing in the early 1890s, Nadar deployed Balzac’s reported initial mistrust and later acquiescence to the daguerreotype as an allegory of larger significance for understanding the history of invention.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
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But as the sexist and racist nature of the MAGA machine has gained mainstream acquiescence if not acceptance, the need to keep up the appearance of diversity is less and less.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Apr. 2026
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All over the world, the ideological warfare of the twentieth century seemed to have given way to a general acceptance that democracy and capitalism were the best way to run a country.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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Over the course of 11 tracks, Gibbard and co detail everything from devastating heartbreak to hard-won acceptance, using every memory as a roadmap.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
2 June 2026
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“Conciliation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conciliation. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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