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atonement

[uh-tohn-muhnt] / əˈtoʊn mənt /


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Mr. Nesbø specializes in the psychological turf between good and evil, success and failure, violence and atonement.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 5, 2025

In all fairness, we don’t know what level of atonement Pitt has made over the years.

From Salon Jun. 30, 2025

He would release them, and shoulder the blame as atonement.

From Slate Jan. 22, 2025

It does not cost anything, just a public act of atonement for past sins.

From BBC Oct. 24, 2024

They were all crying together; and, intoxicated by the noise, the unanimity, the sense of rhythmical atonement, they might, it seemed, have gone on for hours—almost indefinitely.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley




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