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forgiveness

[fer-giv-nis] / fərˈgɪv nɪs /


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Berman recommends getting on an income-driven repayment program, which would put me in an affordable payment plan where the monthly payments would also count toward my loan forgiveness.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

Shinsegae Chairman Chung Yong-jin bowed in apology over the incident during the Tuesday press briefing and asked for forgiveness from bereaved families of the victims of the May 18 Democratic Uprising.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

But he has long taken the spiritual demand to speak truth to power seriously, and balanced it always with a belief in the power of forgiveness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

But estimates for when she could expect student-loan forgiveness varied.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

It was unimaginable that she would ever bend her knees and come crawling along a dusty floor to anybody’s altar, weeping for forgiveness.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin




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