conciliation

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Noun
  • The final version of the reconciliation bill emerged after nearly four days of wrangling among Senate Republicans, with the expansive cuts to Medicaid, along with decreases in funding to Medicare, a leading source of contention among lawmakers before making it out of the upper chamber.
    James Powel, USA Today, 5 July 2025
  • Cruz spearheaded an amendment to shoehorn more than $10 billion into the legislation, also known as a reconciliation bill, to save some of those NASA targets.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Yet Trump’s policy of appeasement toward Russia — an adversary — remains unaltered.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2025
  • Only nine Democrats supported the measure, which some described as appeasement of the new Trump administration.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Too many have chosen the politics of non-engagement, which is at best a hair’s breadth away from acquiescence or complicity.
    Kamila Shamsie June 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
  • This long history of the expansion of executive power, often with the acquiescence of the courts, to violate and restrict civil liberties in the name of national security has ultimately brought us to our current situation.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • With an acceptance rate of just 0.7% this year, the program is highly competitive and serves as a pipeline for permanent positions.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 7 July 2025
  • Regardless of his intention, the ways Kennedy speaks about autism seem to miss how, for many, the prevailing narrative has moved on to more human framing, in which autism is not a disease or a tragedy but a difference meriting acceptance and support.
    Caren Zucker, The Atlantic, 6 July 2025
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“Conciliation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conciliation. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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