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Recent Examples of atone
Husayn’s Kufan supporters acknowledged their failure to aid the imam and pledged to publicly atone.
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Mary Thurlkill,
The Conversation,
30 Mar. 2026
For decades after the war, Germany’s attempts to atone for that history through a deep commitment to pacifism obliged defense companies to keep a low profile, avoiding sponsorships and splashy ad campaigns.
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Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2026
And Germany specifically has rather strict speech laws that strongly limit criticism of Israel, part of Germany’s attempts to atone for its central role in the Holocaust.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
Yet this movie is great enough to atone.
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Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
19 Feb. 2026
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Mary Thurlkill,
The Conversation,
30 Mar. 2026
For decades after the war, Germany’s attempts to atone for that history through a deep commitment to pacifism obliged defense companies to keep a low profile, avoiding sponsorships and splashy ad campaigns.
—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2026
And Germany specifically has rather strict speech laws that strongly limit criticism of Israel, part of Germany’s attempts to atone for its central role in the Holocaust.
—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
Yet this movie is great enough to atone.
—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
19 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for atone
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This situation has been addressed, and everyone involved has apologized.
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JoongAng Group vice chair Hong Jeong-do apologized at a news conference.
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Elsewhere in the episode, Sheridan confessed to not caring about the opinions of television critics.
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During her trial, prosecutors played a recording of Yang confessing to Reuter's murder to a friend who was wearing a wire.
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Radiation can also be used to palliate painful bone metastases, as well as chemotherapy.
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Senior-home avatars who are designed to palliate dementia patients in their darkest days.
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Demings uses the go-to excuse that state legislation bans using the TDT on local projects.
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She’s been canceled, kidnapped, and bamboozled, happy to tell anyone who’ll listen, and who’ll excuse her typos.
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And as much as people wanna whitewash it, that’s part of the history too.
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Burns, who is Black, also pushed back on criticisms that the state’s new Black history curriculum whitewashes the history of slavery and oppression in America.
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Wall Street is increasingly punishing Big Tech companies for spending on AI without profits to justify it.
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Thus far, Meta was only monetizing AI through its advertising, which is a great business but can be cyclical and was not enough to justify using all its cash flow.
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His larger diagnosis is that the division machine has made every disagreement existential — and that once a political difference becomes sacred, people will rationalize almost anything to defeat the other side.
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These activists have rationalized Hamas’ terrorist attacks and embraced outright antisemitism.
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“Atone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atone. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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