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Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–).  The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.  1993.
 
reconcile (v.)
 
 
When it combines with a preposition, reconcile as a transitive verb uses either with or to, as in We finally reconciled their accounts with [to] our records, and only with when the verb is intransitive, as in They finally reconciled with their parents. In the passive, the verb takes either with or to: They were reconciled with [to] their new circumstances. All these are Standard.  1
 
 
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