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Especially knowing full well that all that interrogation could ever reveal was a bottomless shame that nobody—and certainly not themselves—could atone for?

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

This victory will not fully atone for his infamous meltdown after missing the halfway cut at Oakmont a year ago.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

German politicians have been largely supportive of Israel as Germany seeks to atone for the legacy of the Holocaust.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

It was a moment that should be memorialized on Nacua’s robust career highlight reel, and helped him atone for a rare dropped would-be touchdown at the end of the first half.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2026

I felt that I had done something unclean, something for which I could never properly atone.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

He later atones, but the friend rightfully feels exploited.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2018

He atones for the error by heading away the corner.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2017

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

It leaves us with a chilling moral about how the misdeeds of the past, not properly atoned for, can shape the contours of life, and even death.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

“I wanted to see her grow healthy again. To cure her would have atoned for a broken promise in my past. I let down my dear Elnora, who was like a mother to me.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

Faas—who had sent Mr. Út’s photographer brother on an assignment during which he was killed—may have been atoning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

All businesses are closed, so where can this atoning single mother purchase the main ingredient?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 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