expiate
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The Sisters have come a long way, but never strayed from their mission: to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2023
He wanted to expiate “an immense weight of guilt” and determined to “submerge myself, to get right down among the oppressed, to be one of them and on their side against their tyrants.”
From Slate • Jun. 30, 2020
You repeat a trauma continually, until you expiate it.
From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2019
Titch wants to expiate the misdeeds of his childhood, and seeks the approval of his remote, inconstant father.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018
He also seemed to be trying to do something more than expiate guilt.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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