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He urged "those who organise death routes, traffic in human beings" to "stop and repent", raising his voice for emphasis as the crowd applauded.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

For these reasons, and for all my aforementioned principles about allowing people to repent for their mistakes, I don’t think Platner should drop out of the race.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

Even the thief crucified alongside him, in the final minutes of his life, with nothing to offer and everything to repent, received the same promise: today you will be with me in paradise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

To repent, she goes to extreme measures to locate her Black neighbor’s missing Shih Tzu.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025

“I can’t repent … I was sincere, I don’t know how to repent.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

It can't both be true that the accusations are false and also that Hegseth repents of his behavior, as multiple journalists have pointed out.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2025

The assumption is that Brady surely repents of the decision to return and that he is “a shell of himself,” as commentator Rex Ryan hazarded, and indeed he seems thin to the point of sickness.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022

Welby, spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans, called for a "global financial architecture which repents of its past sins", including changes in tax rules to promote green activity.

From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 2021

After Everyman repents of his sins, Good Deeds does gather her strength, and she calls on Beauty, Discretion, Strength, Knowledge, and Five Wits to join them.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 26, 2017

My father misses you as much as I do: I will not repeat all he says, lest you should think he repents of his complying with Sir William's importunity.

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana

In several cases, countries that arrived at trade deals with the U.S. later repented because their deals were too one-sided, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

Among the foreign women held in the camps, many have repented and asked to go home, she said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026

Touching briefly on Paxton's affair, Buzbee framed the suspended attorney general as an imperfect man who had repented.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2023

He said he had since "personally repented for this error," adding: "Looking back, I realise that I should have respectfully declined the request at the time."

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2023

I repented to, and was forgiven by, my buddy Fang.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

That is, if you view him as repenting genuinely.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

So, there’s a deeper meditation where you are repenting, not only for him but for the dynamics that are happening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

By repenting for his original sin with what amounts to an ecclesial nuclear option, Francis has quite possibly ushered in the game-changer in the Catholic Church’s long-running sex abuse crisis.

From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2018

He tried to comfort himself with the thought that maybe he was repenting for a different crime: he had gone over the speed limit in his car; sometimes he had spun his tires.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017

Now repenting of their wickedness, the Bible explains, the tribes resolved to “go to a distant land never yet inhabited by man, and there at last to be obedient to their laws.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann