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US
/ˌɹæˌpɹoʊʃˈmɑn/
]
[ UK /ɹæpɹˈɒʃmɔ̃/ ]
[ UK /ɹæpɹˈɒʃmɔ̃/ ]
NOUN
- the reestablishing of cordial relations
How To Use rapprochement In A Sentence
- Yet he's also studied jazz and Indian music and learnt to play the sarod, so his band achieves a curious rapprochement between world-jazz and heads-down, no-nonsense boogie.
- A photo opportunity with one of his closest allies would signal a rapprochement that has no basis in fact. Times, Sunday Times
- The participants seem to enjoy them hugely and usually end up having some kind of rapprochement. Times, Sunday Times
- Mao Zedong, who led Communist forces to victory in 1949, oversaw the rapprochement between China and the U.S. that stemmed from the Sino-Soviet split, and famously shook hands with President Nixon when he visited Beijing in 1972. Beijing Hails Start of a New Era
- The relationship seemed fragile at best, but the onset of war ruined any hope of marital rapprochement. The Times Literary Supplement
- While the Korean summit made headlines, probably as important is a new triangular rapprochement fast taking place among the three main protagonists of Northeast Asia.
- Anyone wanting a sense of either the broad methodological coherence of this rapprochement or its sometimes bewildering thematic complexity will find resource here.
- Even before the EU summit, Paris, Berlin and Moscow had been scrambling to effect a rapprochement with Washington.
- In fact the rapprochement of the two parties has less to do with the SPD moving to the left, and much more with the shift to the right by the PDS.
- For some years there was an uneasy rapprochement with Richard, but in 1397 Gloucester was seized, at the king's orders, and taken to Calais, where he died, having apparently been smothered under a feather bed.