atone
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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
To atone, Ana-Maria says, they must eat sour grapes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Crowe’s Dec. 6, 1973, cover story on the Allman Brothers was meant to atone for an earlier profile on the band written for the magazine by Grover Lewis, a brutally honest and often unsavory portrait.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2025
And with that came this realization: that Rahim Khan had summoned me here to atone not just for my sins but for Baba’s too.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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