make reparation
Example Sentences
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“But I feel my trajectory has been to make reparation rather than make monuments.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2023
Violations can trigger an obligation to make reparation — either restoring the situation to what it was before or providing compensation.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2022
Or conditional re-employment, which allows him to make reparation, and, hopefully, become a credible messenger that violence is not a reflex but a repairable trait?
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2019
In a prayer at a local shrine, he said: "We ask also for the grace to make reparation for our sins and for all the evil which this land has known."
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2015
The two Kings shall take care that their subjects forbear all acts of hostility, and shall call in all commissions, letters of marque and reprisals, and punish all offenders, obliging them to make reparation.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by Burney, James
