reconcile yourself to something

reconcile | American Dictionary

reconcile
verb[ T ]
us/ˈrek·ənˌsɑɪl/
to adjust the way you think about a fact or situation that is opposed to another fact or situation so that you can accept both:
How do we reconcile the seemingly contradictory notions of cutting taxes and balancing the budget?
If two people are reconciled, they become friendly again after having argued so seriously that they kept apart:
After two years of not speaking to one another, the two brothers were finally reconciled.
To reconcile yourself to a situation is to accept it even if it is unpleasant or painful, because it cannot be changed:
He has reconciled himself to the loss of the election and is moving on.

reconcile | Business English

reconcile
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ˈrekənsaɪl/us
ACCOUNTING
to compare different financial accounts, amounts, etc. in order to check that they add up to the same total or to explain any differences between them:
They've got all the paperwork and they're now trying to reconcile the various figures.
reconcile sth with sthWe need to reconcile all transactions with the bank statements and cancelled cheques.
I just couldn't get the numbers to reconcile.

Examples of reconcile

reconcile
The problem is that each player's use indirectly interferes with the other's use and that some arrangement is necessary to reconcile both uses.
So how are we to understand the aspiration to reconcile themes, which have typically been treated as incompatible?
Each differs in some respects from the others, and no attempt has been made to reconcile those differences.
They were doing so in a way that attempted to reconcile two very different imperatives.
However, it was difficult to reconcile such a model with many properties of the enzymes.
In considering these dimensions, the real and dynamic nature of reconciling work and family life becomes more apparent.
The act of patronising contemporary artists reconciles the conflicting demands of old and new cultures.
In that sense, there is no difficulty in reconciling non-naturalistic forms of evolutionary theory with religion.
Facial expressions, for example, can communicate fear or surprise; a movement of the hand can communicate affection or a desire to reconcile after conflict.
So the majority of works we presented in this article try to reconcile both requirements - automation and high-quality mappings - by adopting semi-automatic approaches.
This paper suggests a way of conceptually reconciling patient autonomy and fairness.
They might be reconciled by specifying which types of media have what types of effects on which types of people.
Also, the above mentioned recent results on generalized notions of metric spaces, which reconcile the order-theoretic with the metric-theoretic approach, are discussed.
This proposal could reconcile the apparently discrepant findings that, in animals, the hippocampus participates in spatial memory, whereas in humans, it participates in declarative memory.
That was the price that had to be paid to reconcile the approach with the central institutional fact.
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