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But he also asked lawmakers to consider a kind of "special amnesty for those who repent."

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

If you did something good, rejoice, something bad, repent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

But not everyone accepted the Church's conclusions or the need to repent.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

For these reasons, and for all my aforementioned principles about allowing people to repent for their mistakes, I don’t think Platner should drop out of the race.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

Yet I knew all the time, if I yielded now, I should not the less be made to repent, some day, of my former rebellion.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

It can't both be true that the accusations are false and also that Hegseth repents of his behavior, as multiple journalists have pointed out.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2025

The assumption is that Brady surely repents of the decision to return and that he is “a shell of himself,” as commentator Rex Ryan hazarded, and indeed he seems thin to the point of sickness.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022

Welby, spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans, called for a "global financial architecture which repents of its past sins", including changes in tax rules to promote green activity.

From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 2021

The sonnets appended to the sermons are a gloss of Psalm 51, in which King David repents of his adultery with Bathsheba.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 5, 2019

"I have no doubt Mrs. Busby repents," said Mrs. Mowbray.

From A Letter of Credit by Susan Warner

Thomas has spoken publicly about his new-found faith: "I have repented my sins and, under Jesus Christ, I am a new man."

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Although his pro-Polish stance cost him a great deal of popularity in Russia—there was a sharp drop in the readership of the samizdat Bell—he never repented his choice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

John Paul visited him in prison in December 1983, where he repented for the crime but did not specify his motives.

From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025

At the time of his 2024 conversion, Brand declared that he had repented of his past and that he would "acknowledge that I am in a battle against myself."

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2025

I repented to, and was forgiven by, my buddy Fang.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

That is, if you view him as repenting genuinely.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

So, there’s a deeper meditation where you are repenting, not only for him but for the dynamics that are happening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

Bryce Brewer, a Christian youth pastor in Spokane, Washington, wanted to “make Jesus famous” by repenting in a Facebook post for banning bikinis from youth camps.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 15, 2021

By repenting for his original sin with what amounts to an ecclesial nuclear option, Francis has quite possibly ushered in the game-changer in the Catholic Church’s long-running sex abuse crisis.

From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2018

Now repenting of their wickedness, the Bible explains, the tribes resolved to “go to a distant land never yet inhabited by man, and there at last to be obedient to their laws.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann