How to Use conciliatory in a Sentence

conciliatory

adjective
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  • Cohen reached out his arms and laughed in a conciliatory gesture, but the Queen of pop wasn't finished with him.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Now, there are signs Durov is adopting a more conciliatory attitude toward the authorities.
    — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The government’s earlier conciliatory approach may been prompted by the scale of the protest, the largest in about a decade.
    — Elisha Bala-Gbogbo, Bloomberg.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • At the end of the contentious race, Mr. Murphy sounded a conciliatory note.
    — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Iger’s comments were more conciliatory than has past remarks on the strikes.
    — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • To them, the conciliatory language politics of Nehru and Indira Gandhi are a thing of the past.
    — Phillip M. Carter, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Bowlsby struck a conciliatory note on the new conference while throwing a little shade on the side.
    — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • But analysts say that in his third decade in power and final term in office, the Turkish strongman may be on a conciliatory path with the West.
    — Zeena Saifi, CNN, 12 July 2023
  • Someone wanting to be helpful, available, conciliatory.
    — Matthew Schnipper, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024
  • On the other hand, his memoir rarely reads as conciliatory.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Nearly nine years later, Hodge's tone is more conciliatory than his 2016 statement to the hearing board.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Rather than focusing on whether or not a consumer can connect to the internet in the first place, providers will need to adopt more of a conciliatory approach toward their customers.
    — Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • What’s surprising is how conciliatory the other four band members are to Yorke.
    — Chuck Klosterman, SPIN, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Despite the relatively conciliatory tone struck by McCarthy and Biden, the two parties are far from an agreement on the debt ceiling.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2023
  • In a conciliatory masterclass with regard to streamers, that message came across loud and clear.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Latimer sought to strike a conciliatory note in a victory speech to cheering supporters in White Plains.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 26 June 2024
  • While the first half hour of his speech struck a more conciliatory tone, the rest of Trump’s speech was a greatest hits album marked by hyperbolic warnings about America and false claims of election fraud.
    — Candy Woodall, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2024
  • But Ting strikes a conciliatory tone toward rivals like Bird, whose shares have fallen 94% this year on fears the e-scooter revolution has peaked.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Kennedy himself took a more conciliatory—and sometimes avoidant—approach to civil rights issues early in his term.
    — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
  • In a conciliatory gesture, Wagner gaveled open Senate floor sessions this week but did not conduct a roll call.
    — Andrew Selsky, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
  • Like Mapps, Ryan also sounded a conciliatory note toward the police chief, noting Lovell was sworn in during a very turbulent time in June.
    — oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The Taliban, wary of once again governing as an international pariah, has tried to strike a more conciliatory tone this time around.
    — Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The two were perfectly positioned to shift to a more conciliatory approach.
    — Jomana Karadsheh and Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Forced to address the looming risk of FTC oversight, Musk reportedly struck a conciliatory tone.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
  • When raising this issue on Friday, Mr. Xi struck a conciliatory tone.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2024
  • By 1967, Poitier’s star had risen so high that critics began to accuse him of being too conciliatory and demure in his approach to racial politics.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For some faculty and staff, the university’s conciliatory words fell on deaf ears.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 1 May 2024
  • On this front, Mr. González has been more conciliatory than other candidates.
    — Isayen Herrera Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 6 May 2024
  • Some employees viewed that as an attempt to be conciliatory.
    — Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Kremlev has not taken a conciliatory tone toward the IOC's demands.
    — Greg Beacham, ajc, 25 Sep. 2022

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