atone for
Example Sentences
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The party certainly has past sins to atone for: D.C. in fact passed a bill to jump the line in 2004 to draw attention to its lack of voting representation in Congress.
From Slate • May 26, 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
Newsom and state lawmakers passed a law to create a “first in the nation” task force to study and propose remedies to help atone for the legacy of slavery.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2025
But his solo status is due to a variety of factors, starting with his desperation to atone for his past mistakes — the worst of which exploited his awful father’s conditioning to obey authority.
From Salon • Aug. 28, 2025
After everything she had done to atone for her crime, after she had turned her marriage into an arctic wasteland and allowed a surgeon to tie her fallopian tubes, consanguinity wasn’t finished with her.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
