expiation
Example Sentences
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But “Runaway Train” the book is not some weepy expiation for past sins, a Hollywood reclamation job designed to kick-start a once-buzzy career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024
Rather, each of these minions is in thrall to the project of keeping the lie alive, complicit in a pathological system of mortification, expiation, and fear that has taken on a life of its own.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2023
History records some of these ugly episodes being interspersed with exercises in a staged national expiation of guilt — as was on display in Tulsa.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2021
As if in expiation for his role during the Nixon years, the main theme in his books and speeches is to sound the alarm about abuses of presidential power.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2017
As a young man I was attracted to expiation.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing expiation
The Scarlet Letter
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Oedipus the King
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A Tale of Two Cities
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