atonement

Example Sentences

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But the debate has intensified in recent years, particularly after some nations and businesses which historically profited from African slave labour formally apologised and announced measures of atonement.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

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

He would release them, and shoulder the blame as atonement.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2025

And all at once a great synthetic bass boomed out the words which announced the approaching atonement and final consummation of solidarity, the coming of the Twelve-in-One, the incarnation of the Greater Being.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley