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
He would release them, and shoulder the blame as atonement.
From Slate • Jan. 22, 2025
The problem these fifty-nine years has been this: how can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing atonement
World Religions
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