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Now as a bishop, with a Church commitment to tangibly repent for its past sins, she felt the institution was starting to better represent the Church her mother and many others had stayed loyal to.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

He urged "those who organise death routes, traffic in human beings" to "stop and repent", raising his voice for emphasis as the crowd applauded.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

For these reasons, and for all my aforementioned principles about allowing people to repent for their mistakes, I don’t think Platner should drop out of the race.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

Even the thief crucified alongside him, in the final minutes of his life, with nothing to offer and everything to repent, received the same promise: today you will be with me in paradise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Yet I knew all the time, if I yielded now, I should not the less be made to repent, some day, of my former rebellion.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Grinch boosters point out that the villain repents and reforms at the end of the story, shedding his pathological hatred of Christmas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025

It can't both be true that the accusations are false and also that Hegseth repents of his behavior, as multiple journalists have pointed out.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2025

The assumption is that Brady surely repents of the decision to return and that he is “a shell of himself,” as commentator Rex Ryan hazarded, and indeed he seems thin to the point of sickness.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022

Welby, spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans, called for a "global financial architecture which repents of its past sins", including changes in tax rules to promote green activity.

From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 2021

But I believe he is chiefly meditating on the purging and subliming of what he has already done: and repents that he has published at all yet.

From Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Parsons, Eugene

In several cases, countries that arrived at trade deals with the U.S. later repented because their deals were too one-sided, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

John Paul visited him in prison in December 1983, where he repented for the crime but did not specify his motives.

From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025

At the time of his 2024 conversion, Brand declared that he had repented of his past and that he would "acknowledge that I am in a battle against myself."

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2025

Most of these old pirates have left the area - often they have gone abroad or have repented.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2024

"If Lord Eddard were to confess his crime," she said at last, "we would know he had repented his folly."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

So, there’s a deeper meditation where you are repenting, not only for him but for the dynamics that are happening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

Bryce Brewer, a Christian youth pastor in Spokane, Washington, wanted to “make Jesus famous” by repenting in a Facebook post for banning bikinis from youth camps.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 15, 2021

At one moment—around the time of his mother’s death—he is pulled back toward his inherited faith, repenting his lust for worldly success and begging forgiveness from God.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019

By repenting for his original sin with what amounts to an ecclesial nuclear option, Francis has quite possibly ushered in the game-changer in the Catholic Church’s long-running sex abuse crisis.

From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2018

And the manufacturers and importers and salesmen down on their knees, repenting in public, conical paper hats like dunce hats on their heads, shame printed on them in red.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood