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as in forgiveness
freedom from guilt or blame for having done something wrong
Redemption for your actions will only come after a lot of apologizing.
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as in salvation
the act of releasing (someone) from servitude to another
The redemption of slaves was a major issue in the Civil War.
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Recent Examples of redemption
The film follows a man living in self-punishment after a fatal car accident who finds redemption through his relationship with his deceased friend’s young son.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Jan. 2025
The sharp decline in assets with Lindsell Train likely means the fund has had to sell to cash out its investors’ redemptions.
—Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 13 Jan. 2025
Movies are the great compensatory art, the creative redemption for people who are novelists, poets, musicians, playwrights, painters, photographers, or even philosophers at heart but not in practice—or those who have artistic souls but no preferred art form at all.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Children must be younger than the age of 6 at the time of redemption.
—Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2025
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Jan. 2025
The sharp decline in assets with Lindsell Train likely means the fund has had to sell to cash out its investors’ redemptions.
—Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 13 Jan. 2025
Movies are the great compensatory art, the creative redemption for people who are novelists, poets, musicians, playwrights, painters, photographers, or even philosophers at heart but not in practice—or those who have artistic souls but no preferred art form at all.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Children must be younger than the age of 6 at the time of redemption.
—Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for redemption
Noun
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The Biden administration made two more attempts to enact mass student loan forgiveness.—
Adam S. Minsky,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Trump has criticized the scope of Biden's student loan forgiveness.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
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The intrigue: One of the biggest obstacles to Trump's salvation mission is his own party.—
Zachary Basu,
Axios,
18 Jan. 2025
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But that concerns his personal salvation—not the safety of the nation.—
Greg Kelly,
Newsweek,
12 Jan. 2025
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The show is organized around themes including sensuality, spirituality, joy, revelry and emancipation.—
Emily LaBarge,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2025
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For Augustus and others, being paid to be exploited was not emancipation.—
Nyya Toussaint / Made by History,
TIME,
31 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Fortunately, deliverance was closer than many realized.—
Robert Klara,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Jan. 2025
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That absurd epic, which originated in 1096, declared its aim to be the deliverance of the lands of the Holy Sepulcher from the Turks.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
5 Dec. 2024
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“Redemption.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redemption. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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