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US
/ˌɹæˌpɹoʊʃˈmɑn/
]
[ UK /ɹæpɹˈɒʃmɔ̃/ ]
[ UK /ɹæpɹˈɒʃmɔ̃/ ]
NOUN
- the reestablishing of cordial relations
How To Use rapprochement In A Sentence
- Hopefully this series can be the beginning of a fresh rapprochement between the two countries.
- To move toward such a rapprochement of souls is the natural tendency of a foundation with an international character and an idealistic outlook which implies that the entire civilized world is envisaged from a purely intellectual point of view as constituting one single and identical republic of minds. Henri Bergson - Banquet Speech
- Ichiro Ozawa, chef d'orchestre de ce rapprochement spectaculaire, est un vieil ami de la Chine.
- Since then the two have undergone something of a rapprochement after their long feud. Times, Sunday Times
- In fact it is hardly likely to materialise at all as we are told any rapprochement with the social democrats depends on us turning our backs on radicalism.
- The presence of a pair of panda bears in Washington was taken as a sign of a new rapprochement between the two countries.
- Hopes of cementing the recent rapprochement between Nato allies, Greece and Turkey, have been set back.
- Increasing criticism within the South of the old irredentist outlook and appreciation of the need to change a conservative social framework were both part of a rapprochement with Britain.
- I ask him if he would seek a rapprochement, and the answer is quicker, and initially more superficial. Times, Sunday Times
- I proposed that an attempt be made to bring the two images closer and to devise mechanisms by which this rapprochement could be achieved.