make reparation
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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
But if you have pity on the country, if conscience stirs within you, if you value your deeds of past times and you wish to make reparation, the field is open before you.
From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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