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Especially knowing full well that all that interrogation could ever reveal was a bottomless shame that nobody—and certainly not themselves—could atone for?

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

Having suppressed its military for years in an attempt to atone for the horrors it perpetrated, can Germany fulfil its newfound ambition to become Europe's preeminent military power?

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026

German politicians have been largely supportive of Israel as Germany seeks to atone for the legacy of the Holocaust.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

It was a moment that should be memorialized on Nacua’s robust career highlight reel, and helped him atone for a rare dropped would-be touchdown at the end of the first half.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2026

I felt that I had done something unclean, something for which I could never properly atone.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

He latches onto a careless back-header by Tyler Bindon and takes the ball around Reading keeper Joel Pereira, but Bindon atones by getting back to block on the line.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2024

It's a pattern of really bad behavior for which she never really atones.

From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2020

That feat alone almost atones the franchise’s first seven seasons in D.C., which featured 91 losses on average and five last-place finishes.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 16, 2019

It is for $400, an amount that seems commensurate with the offense for which it atones.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2019

It was among lean-to’s and adaptations—past ogham atones commemorating some long-dead Deag the son of No, built into a later bastion upside down.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

She danced and sinned and regretted and atoned, and then contradicted herself by doing it all over again.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

McIlroy atoned for two bogeys with nine birdies, shooting a seven-under-par 65 to improve on his stellar 67 in the opening round.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

Van Dijk atoned for his previous error to begin the Liverpool fightback when he headed in Szoboszlai's corner.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

Former Rangers midfielder Andy Halliday says Butland has more than atoned for previous errors.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025

“Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it?”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

The original idea was to fund the Sagrada Família through donations by people atoning for their sins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

We should say their names, tell their stories, and honor their legacies by atoning for the harms caused and ensuring that nothing like this ever happens again.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026

Clinton Kelly and Stacy London return as its hosts, older, wiser and atoning for the tough love and scathing real talk they once doled out to style-challenged guests.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026

All businesses are closed, so where can this atoning single mother purchase the main ingredient?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

As always, too, his thoughts turned quickly to find some way of atoning.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton