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

redeem

[ri-deem] / rɪˈdim /




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“The text was intended to shape the heart and redeem the body,” Mr. Halldorf writes, “so that, in a sense, they were writing themselves into heaven.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 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

EatClub is another, giving walk-ins up to 50% off the whole bill at thousands of venues when they redeem an offer within its app.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

“Here’s your chance to redeem yourself,” Henry said to Beto.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

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

First, his own overwhelming sense of shame redeems him.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley

Perhaps he likes aligning himself with fiction’s most famously redeemed scoundrel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

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

But he redeemed himself somewhat by declaring that he had finally got a taste for villainy.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 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

I watched the planes soar down toward the city, and I felt redeemed and whole.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

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

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

Arnott said he suspects that “buybacks tend to ramp up when management is redeeming stock options, arguably to help facilitate the redemptions.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate was once the darling of foreign diplomats, with legions of supporters at home and a reputation for redeeming Myanmar from a history of iron-fisted martial rule.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Sometimes, I think everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini


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