atonement

Example Sentences

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Mr. Nesbø specializes in the psychological turf between good and evil, success and failure, violence and atonement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

For all his personal failings, Bill Clinton has always clung to the promise of forgiveness and the process of atonement.

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2025

Kalyan is also performing what he called 11 days of atonement rituals to rectify the "great injustice".

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2024

He was promised an opportunity at atonement with a scheduled start in Game 4.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2024

They were all crying together; and, intoxicated by the noise, the unanimity, the sense of rhythmical atonement, they might, it seemed, have gone on for hours—almost indefinitely.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley