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
Lady Corbet shall find, that when led into an error, Talton is neither ashamed to acknowledge it, nor to make reparation as far as lies in his power!
From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Reeve, Sophia
