atonement

Example Sentences

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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

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

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2024

What full atonement would look like is still up for discussion, but in the meantime the tribe is in the process of acquiring additional lands by year’s end, he says.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

Perhaps the reason Yakov had possessed me was because he had been chasing after the same atonement I had yearned for all along.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros