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atonement

[uh-tohn-muhnt] / əˈtoʊn mənt /


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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

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

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

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2024

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




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