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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

Meme managed to repent her impulse in a fraction of a second, but the repentance changed immediately into a cruel satisfaction on seeing that his hand too was sweaty and cold.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Grinch boosters point out that the villain repents and reforms at the end of the story, shedding his pathological hatred of Christmas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025

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

An actor living luxuriously with two concubines chances to enter a church, and hears read from the Gospel, "Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand"; so he repents and becomes a monk.

From The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation by Dobschutz, Ernst Von

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

At the time of his 2024 conversion, Brand declared that he had repented of his past and that he would "acknowledge that I am in a battle against myself."

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2025

"He respected the process, admitted his guilt, repented, accepted court verdicts. Right now he is old, has illness that need caring from medical professional," it read.

From Reuters ● Sep. 1, 2023

Las Casas, a conquistador who repented of his actions and became a priest, spent the second half of his long fife opposing European cruelty in the Americas.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

Earlier this month, the National Association of Evangelicals issued a statement repenting for shortcomings in combating poverty and racial inequality.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2020

At one moment—around the time of his mother’s death—he is pulled back toward his inherited faith, repenting his lust for worldly success and begging forgiveness from God.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019

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