atone

"If we're going to commit to prosecuting someone who's degraded the landscape, then we should make sure that they atone by monitoring that landscape sufficiently afterwards."

From BBC ● May 26, 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

“I write to atone by telling the full truth so that the United States can protect itself from the dangers I witnessed for so many years,” Carvajal wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 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

She seems to realize that she has something to atone for, but she’s not sure exactly what it is.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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

From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2020

That feat alone almost atones the franchise’s first seven seasons in D.C., which featured 91 losses on average and five last-place finishes.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 16, 2019

He later atones, but the friend rightfully feels exploited.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 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

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

Hernández atoned for his defensive miscue with two run-scoring doubles, tying him with Aaron Judge for the most RBIs in the majors with 29.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025

Marc Skinner's side remained firmly in control and struck once more as Lisa Naalsund atoned for an earlier miss by rifling home from the edge of the box as Brighton failed to clear a set-piece.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2024

“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

Interspersed throughout the story are black-and-white “mystical visions,” as Anderson calls them, in which Korda sees himself in heaven atoning for his sins and even dialoguing with God.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

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

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