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making amends

NOUN
amende honorable
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An AI system has no stake; it isn’t capable of reform or making amends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

He gets a lot of those letters and visits, that are like people making amends.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

But I didn’t want to “surrender” to anything, nor to spend my whole life making amends and walking a path of eternal deprivation and self-denial like I saw in popular recovery communities.

From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2026

But France had butchered numerous try-scoring opportunities in a surprise defeat by England at Allianz Stadium last time out, and looked intent on making amends.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025

Tyler Crowley was impossible, following me around, obsessed with making amends to me somehow.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer


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