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While Berenger attempts to atone for his ill grace at their last meeting, a frowzy, bedridden Jean becomes increasingly antagonistic—and animalistic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Having beaten Australia and Japan in their first two games, Ireland will leave Auckland empty-handed after their fourth successive loss to New Zealand and must wait until November to atone for a sloppy first-half performance.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

The party certainly has past sins to atone for: D.C. in fact passed a bill to jump the line in 2004 to draw attention to its lack of voting representation in Congress.

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

Like a lot of young Latinos, she’s now taking steps to connect with her heritage, and, in a way, atone for those moments where she let what others might think rob her of her pride.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

This is one of Annabelle’s struggles, the sense that she must apologize and atone for other people’s actions.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

It's a pattern of really bad behavior for which she never really atones.

From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2020

Pak atones for a three-putt bogey on the 18th hole in regulation that set up the playoff.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 4, 2020

But it’s also here that Sud, in a sort of three-episode epilogue, more than atones for any lingering resentment about how “The Killing” dealt with conclusions.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2018

Stones coughs it up, and City break with Navas, but Stones atones for his error by heading powerfully away.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 13, 2016

It was among lean-to’s and adaptations—past ogham atones commemorating some long-dead Deag the son of No, built into a later bastion upside down.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

She danced and sinned and regretted and atoned, and then contradicted herself by doing it all over again.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

“That is wrong and that is something that needs to be redeemed and addressed and atoned for,” he added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

Van Dijk atoned for his previous error to begin the Liverpool fightback when he headed in Szoboszlai's corner.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

Former Rangers midfielder Andy Halliday says Butland has more than atoned for previous errors.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025

“Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it?”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

The original idea was to fund the Sagrada Família through donations by people atoning for their sins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

We should say their names, tell their stories, and honor their legacies by atoning for the harms caused and ensuring that nothing like this ever happens again.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026

Clinton Kelly and Stacy London return as its hosts, older, wiser and atoning for the tough love and scathing real talk they once doled out to style-challenged guests.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026

Roos went some way to atoning for his early error as he stood tall to twice deny Cyriel Dessers, with the second stop an excellent reaction save with his right boot.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2024

As always, too, his thoughts turned quickly to find some way of atoning.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton