RECONCILING (TO) Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

reconciling (to)

verb

present participle of reconcile (to)

as in sticking out

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These tags look like an antenna sticking out of a small rectangular box, and staff used eyelash glue to stick them to the back of the butterflies.

— Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2026
Rhaenyra is called into her chambers to find the window open, and Helaena impaled dead on the spikes below, one spike garrishly sticking out of her neck.

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of sticking out

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As North Texans continue sweating out summer temperatures, predictions are rolling in on what to expect this winter.

— Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Aug. 2026
Cade realized the players were sweating out electrolytes — another word for minerals like sodium, potassium and magnesium — and upsetting the body’s chemical balance.

— Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026

Definition of sweating out

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The shortage has been worsened by the US seizing oil shipments from Cuba’s long-standing ally Venezuela.

— Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 28 Aug. 2026
Buckingham’s long-standing engineer, Gary Paczosa, had respect for how Steve reacted to the many ideas Dolly flung at him.

— Martha Ackmann, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of standing

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That gives the new processor a path into systems handling large transaction-processing and data-intensive workloads.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 Aug. 2026
Such transformers are physically smaller and lighter than conventional transformers, have modular designs that enable easy upgrades or replacements of parts, and can perform as all-in-one power electronic devices by handling multiple tasks.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of handling

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Still, the Sky have not earned a reputation for sustaining a system from year to year — and the status of the remaining roster does not lend itself to a building process for the Sky.

— Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Trey Moore, who had emerged as a front-runner to start at linebacker for the Dolphins, will be out awhile after sustaining an ankle injury during Saturday’s 26-3 preseason loss to the Giants.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of sustaining

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But still, the friendship captured onscreen is true to life, and an interesting peek into one of Hollywood’s most enduring bromances.

— Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 24 Aug. 2026
More than 70 years later, the house remains an enduring testament to the meeting of two pioneering minds.

— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of enduring

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So deep are the divisions that hardliners have accused officials of deliberately mismanaging the economic crisis to pressure an exhausted public into accepting a deal.

— Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
Miller and Young each received two-year prison sentences but were released shortly after accepting the plea agreement.

— Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2026

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