atone

A group of former gaming executives say they want to atone for damage the industry has caused the environment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

AFP journalists saw devotees deliberately puncturing their skin with glass shards attached to a small wooden paddle to ensure their bleeding during the ritual, a way to atone for sins and seek miracles from God.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 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

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

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

He later atones, but the friend rightfully feels exploited.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2018

Only Richard Dawkins has a secular given name, but atones for it by his surname, which is ultimately inherited from King David, the psalmist and giant killer.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2012

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

“That is wrong and that is something that needs to be redeemed and addressed and atoned for,” he added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 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

DeChambeau atoned for missing out at Valhalla with the year's most dramatic major victory, beating Rory McIlroy for the US Open at Pinehurst.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024

“But they ’bout to get a big surprise; justice sleeps but not for long and one day when it wake up, all sins is atoned for.”

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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

Faas—who had sent Mr. Út’s photographer brother on an assignment during which he was killed—may have been atoning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

Interspersed throughout the story are black-and-white “mystical visions,” as Anderson calls them, in which Korda sees himself in heaven atoning for his sins and even dialoguing with God.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

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

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