atonement

Example Sentences

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Mr. Nesbø specializes in the psychological turf between good and evil, success and failure, violence and atonement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

For all his personal failings, Bill Clinton has always clung to the promise of forgiveness and the process of atonement.

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2025

He would release them, and shoulder the blame as atonement.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2025

It does not cost anything, just a public act of atonement for past sins.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2024

And all at once a great synthetic bass boomed out the words which announced the approaching atonement and final consummation of solidarity, the coming of the Twelve-in-One, the incarnation of the Greater Being.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley