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
And the thought of how I unwillingly hurt him has made me all the more anxious to make reparation by being of service to his two boys.
From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells
