atonement
Example Sentences
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The novel explores themes of ancestral sin and atonement against the backdrop of the forests, which stand as silent witnesses to human crimes enacted on a global scale.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025
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
In all fairness, we don’t know what level of atonement Pitt has made over the years.
From Salon • Jun. 30, 2025
Kalyan is also performing what he called 11 days of atonement rituals to rectify the "great injustice".
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2024
“It is an eternal atonement, to watch over the children of the sun, the children of my people, the Azteca bloodline.”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Vocabulary lists containing atonement
World Religions
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Siddhartha
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The Awakening
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