repent
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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
Even the thief crucified alongside him, in the final minutes of his life, with nothing to offer and everything to repent, received the same promise: today you will be with me in paradise.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
A column is a recurring opportunity to err in plain sight, then repent, Doyle McManus says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2025
There would have been a time that I would have had to plan for eating like this — and there would have been a time I would've felt like I had to repent.
From Salon • Sep. 19, 2023
In 1859, he contacted the publisher John Murray hesitantly: “I heartily hope that my Book may be sufficiently successful that you may not repent of having undertaken it.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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