make reparation
Example Sentences
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“But I feel my trajectory has been to make reparation rather than make monuments.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
Violations can trigger an obligation to make reparation — either restoring the situation to what it was before or providing compensation.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
Or conditional re-employment, which allows him to make reparation, and, hopefully, become a credible messenger that violence is not a reflex but a repairable trait?
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2019
In a prayer at a local shrine, he said: "We ask also for the grace to make reparation for our sins and for all the evil which this land has known."
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2015
I would tell as few lies as possible, and trust that some day I might be able to make reparation for my evil doings.
From The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia by A. F. Mockler Ferryman
