repent
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To repent, she goes to extreme measures to locate her Black neighbor’s missing Shih Tzu.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025
On Yom Kippur, Jews all over the world will fast, pray, avoid work or play and otherwise repent both for their sins and those of humanity as a whole.
From Salon • Sep. 24, 2023
"Not only do I not repent any of this, I am proud of it," he added.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2023
“So he was excommunicated. How do you lift an excommunication? The person has to recognize it and has to repent, which he did.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2022
He spoke quickly, as if to give himself no time to repent of his offer, and hurried away even before my husband had assented.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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