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Which character in Star Wars sacrifices himself to redeem his past actions?

redeem

[ri-deem] / rɪˈdim /




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He decided not to redeem when he found out what seats were actually available.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Blue Owl said it would redeem only 5%.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

These vehicles allow investors to redeem shares quarterly — but usually only up to 5% of a fund’s assets.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Both the Blue Owl funds said they would redeem only 5% of the redemption requests, the standard across the industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

And so the evening concludes with an explosion of emotion that redeems its flaws, and sends us reeling, shaken, into the night.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

And he’s racked up plenty of points in the process that he redeems for vacations, including a recent winter holiday trip to the Caribbean that would have otherwise cost him thousands of dollars.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

But it’s Noble’s luminous way with Shakespeare, supported by an inspired company of redoubtable actresses, that redeems this production.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

Under these arrangements, companies or brokers buy forest land to preserve it, so that by absorbing carbon from the atmosphere the land redeems or "offsets" the planet-warming emissions produced by firms' other activities.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

"Can you not see for yourself how it redeems all the misery of life for some people?"

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)

The company also noted that FanCash holds a lesser value when redeemed on betting than when used on other parts of the business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

Unlike last week, they came up clutch as Zoe Harrison redeemed herself for a late penalty miss by snatching victory with an intercept try in the final play.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Bond yields reflect the current market prices of what the capital gains or losses will be when the bonds are redeemed at face value.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

In that way, I feel creatively redeemed on some level, just in my own journey between me, myself and I. But I feel ready to move on from the ‘Blade’ questions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

“At the end, he’s sorry. He’s just really, really sorry about everything, and that’s enough. Everyone forgives him. Shakespeare lets Leontes be redeemed even though he did all that evil stuff.”

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

It’s a fun concept—the machine taking on pesky tasks that offer no redeeming mental value—but there’s an important group standing in Big Tech’s way: Big Tech.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Another redeeming aspect of El Niño: Scientists know where it is likely to strike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

I love to ask authors who write books, with characters who would widely be perceived as unlikable, what do you think are Mallory and Leo’s most redeeming qualities, and how did you empathize with them?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Once Social Security’s benefit payments exceed payroll-tax revenue — an issue that is now worrying lawmakers, workers and retirees — the Social Security Administration starts redeeming those bonds.

From MarketWatch ● May 2, 2026

Any hopes Pollard had of redeeming himself there were quickly silenced.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand


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