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atonement

noun as in compensation

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For the first few months of this season, road trips for the Astros amounted to something like a traveling atonement carnival.

Johnson notes that the conversation on reparations, which falls under atonement, needs to be expanded.

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That racial reconciliation will involve the acknowledgment of the wrong that’s been done, an apology, and atonement.

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You wrote, “His advocacy was a form of atonement but also deflection.”

From Time

Citizen Kane, at least in Mank’s telling, is equal parts his stroke of revenge and his plea for atonement.

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For all our sins, may the Force that makes forgiveness possible forgive us, pardon us, and make atonement possible.

His public atonement and embrace of Westergaard might force Akkari himself to live with perpetual police protection.

What do you like to snack on while writing or reading Atonement?

Five means atonement; 10 means completeness; 17 means heaven.

But my burden is nothing compared to her loss and the suffering her family had to endure…Atonement is a process that never ends.

It was not alone the slaying and offering of sacrifice, but also the sprinkling of blood that made atonement.

You may think I'm offering myself as a sort of vicarious atonement—if your Doris fails you—but I'm not, really.

The old woman has died, and her daughter Chane is brought before us on the same Atonement day.

The reference to the "many women," "beholding afar off," forms a pathetic close to the story of the Great Atonement Day.

The purpose of the writer is to teach the entire separateness of Christs atonement.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to atonement, such as: penance, redemption, reparation, amends, expiation, and indemnification.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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