atonement
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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
Julius, meanwhile, becomes a card-cheat spotter for a casino as an act of atonement for his thieving ways — it’s easy to buy Elordi’s take on ’50s rogue sensitivity.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2025
“There is and will not be any atonement for abandoning the captives,” he said.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 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
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