repent

“Of course, people can repent and have a second chance. But they should not be lauded.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 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

Now I realize we go so Pop can repent.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

Grinch boosters point out that the villain repents and reforms at the end of the story, shedding his pathological hatred of Christmas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 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

That particular reality is redeemed in narrative terms — Scrooge repents and Tiny Tim doesn't die after all — but the observation stands, and we all know how the story ends in the long run.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2021

Equally distinct is it from the spirit of angels, for they rejoice in the presence of God when one sinner repents.

From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds

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

In a better world, perhaps he’d have had a change of heart and repented of his increasingly intolerant tirades.

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

Among the foreign women held in the camps, many have repented and asked to go home, she said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026

It seemed Leah was correct; the spirit would not answer unless Lizzie repented.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

At one moment—around the time of his mother’s death—he is pulled back toward his inherited faith, repenting his lust for worldly success and begging forgiveness from God.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019

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