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Recent Examples of atone
With about seven minutes left in the game, Bouchard atoned for his embarrassment by MacKinnon earlier in the night by burying his slap shot in the top left shelf.
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Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 17 Jan. 2025
Players assume responsibility for characters with powerful abilities: an elf necromancer from a family of aristocrats, say, or a half-orc paladin atoning for past crimes.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
That year, the city set out to create the country’s first reparations program to atone for its history of racial discrimination.
—Michela Moscufo, NBC News, 23 Dec. 2024
Dollar General is piloting same-day delivery from approximately 75 stores as the discount retailer hopes to atone for some of its slip-ups earlier this year and regain market share among its middle-income consumers.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 Dec. 2024
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Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 17 Jan. 2025
Players assume responsibility for characters with powerful abilities: an elf necromancer from a family of aristocrats, say, or a half-orc paladin atoning for past crimes.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
That year, the city set out to create the country’s first reparations program to atone for its history of racial discrimination.
—Michela Moscufo, NBC News, 23 Dec. 2024
Dollar General is piloting same-day delivery from approximately 75 stores as the discount retailer hopes to atone for some of its slip-ups earlier this year and regain market share among its middle-income consumers.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for atone
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Overcoming Michigan Setback Howard apologized to Ohio State fans following a stunning loss to Michigan at the conclusion of the regular season, a mess of a defeat to a bitter rival.—
Tom Layberger,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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Furthermore, John publicly apologized shortly after the criticism of his behavior arose, including in a U.S. television interview.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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Enterprising captains — including, Pujol confesses, his own grandfather, who owned a 38-foot lobster boat — would pick up migrants in Cuba and deliver them to waiting family members parked at the traffic circle.—
Nicolas Rivero,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
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James Earl Ray, a 40-year-old escaped fugitive, later confessed to the crime and was sentenced to a 99-year prison term.—
Michael Loria,
USA TODAY,
25 Jan. 2025
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Radiation can also be used to palliate painful bone metastases, as well as chemotherapy.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
1 Oct. 2024
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Senior-home avatars who are designed to palliate dementia patients in their darkest days.—
Longreads,
Longreads,
12 Apr. 2024
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After various teachers, administrators and parents raised concerns about the efficacy and age appropriateness of the books, the school system initially allowed students to be excused when the books were read in class.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA TODAY,
17 Jan. 2025
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Prior to the pandemic, Pelosi denied Rep. Tammy Duckworth’s (D-Ill.) request to be excused from in-person voting due to similar concerns in 2014.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
15 Jan. 2025
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Joe Biden pardoning his family proves it, and Donald Trump trying to whitewash January 6th proves it.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Jan. 2025
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For victims of the Jan. 6 attack, the attempt to whitewash the events of that day has been especially difficult.—
Tom Dreisbach,
NPR,
5 Jan. 2025
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That’s a pretty big gap and would require an equally large difference in their per-minute play to justify putting Hunter first.—
John Hollinger,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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Then there’s the ruling’s decision that national security could justify potential speech suppression.—
Lauren Feiner,
The Verge,
24 Jan. 2025
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Those motivators are based on emotion, which is then rationalized.—
Wayne Elsey,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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The older is progressivism’s century-old commitment to administration: the impulse to centralize and rationalize in the name of efficiency and transparency.—
Ian Tuttle,
National Review,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Atone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atone. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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