as in to apologize
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Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, had to make a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to atone for declaring that Trump must accept responsibility for instigating the riot.
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David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
Instead, they are told to atone for their race, leave because of their names, and purify their blood.
—Churchill Ndonwie, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
In an interview, Hood challenged the idea that death is a just punishment for a person like Nelson, whose life before becoming involved with crime was rife with suffering and abuse for which no one atoned.
—Bayliss Wagner, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
But after returning for the eighth and making quick work of Harper and Castellanos, Chapman faced Realmuto and the catcher atoned for his earlier miscue by hitting a game-tying solo homer to straightaway center field.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 24 July 2025
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David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
Instead, they are told to atone for their race, leave because of their names, and purify their blood.
—Churchill Ndonwie, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
In an interview, Hood challenged the idea that death is a just punishment for a person like Nelson, whose life before becoming involved with crime was rife with suffering and abuse for which no one atoned.
—Bayliss Wagner, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
But after returning for the eighth and making quick work of Harper and Castellanos, Chapman faced Realmuto and the catcher atoned for his earlier miscue by hitting a game-tying solo homer to straightaway center field.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 24 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for atone
Verb
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In the locker room after the game, Carter apologized to his teammates.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Sep. 2025
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Her tail kept wagging in anticipation while her owner apologized.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Go Hasegawa, who is in the process of designing one of the property’s 13 vacation homes, confesses that having complete creative control has instead been a source of stress.—
Siobhan Reid,
Robb Report,
7 Sep. 2025
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When Harry confessed that the newlyweds’ romance was inspiring to him in his own dating life, Kate reportedly cried.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
7 Sep. 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
Verb
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But that legal reality shouldn’t excuse the behavior.—
Matt Germer,
Oc Register,
7 Sep. 2025
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Listening to these women fawn all over Julia for carrying the laird’s child, for carrying a future king, listening to them excuse away Julia being unmarried, all of it makes Davina blow a fuse.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Protestors in Hong Kong applauded South Park for calling out public figures whitewashing the oppressive Chinese government, which would swiftly ban the show.—
Chris Yogerst,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Aug. 2025
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Culture must never be used to whitewash crimes or serve as a propaganda tool.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
25 Aug. 2025
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Businesses can and should use catastrophe models themselves to establish baseline risk profiles, stress-test scenarios, quantify protection gaps, and justify resilience investments.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Some are too flashy, while others look too plain to justify the price tag.—
Amina Ayoud,
Glamour,
3 Sep. 2025
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This guy needs to do some serious soul searching to rationalize his life existence.—
Lexy Perez,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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The smarter approach is to rationalize those systems and refocus spending on solutions that reduce both financial and operational overhead.—
Leslie Milne,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Atone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atone. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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