expiate

Example Sentences

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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

In no time, he’d be shouting “the game’s afoot!” and heading off on an adventure not to expiate secret feelings of worthlessness or avenge a dead loved one, but just for the hell of it.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2021

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