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repent

[ri-pent] / rɪˈpɛnt /


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The passage is often invoked by Christian conservatives in the US, and is interpreted to be a call for citizens to repent and for God to bless the nation.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

To repent, she goes to extreme measures to locate her Black neighbor’s missing Shih Tzu.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025

The Tulkarm Brigades statement said anyone who had been working with Israeli security services had until Dec. 5 to come forward and repent.

From Reuters • Nov. 25, 2023

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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