as in to compensate
to make up for (an offense)
tried to atone for forgetting their anniversary by giving his wife a truly extravagant gift
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Powell’s release comes nearly one year into Georgia’s new system to compensate the wrongfully convicted.
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When fibroblasts were lost, the ones that remained appeared to compensate.
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Winners have to go to a Florida Lottery district office to redeem these winning tickets.
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No minimum to redeem for cash back.
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The development came as the district is working to close an unprecedented $170 million deficit and avoid state receivership, which would place the district under strict oversight while any emergency loan and interest are repaid.
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Who Is Actually Behind The Machine Names matter in a prospectus, and the names here repay a careful look.
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Week-long gembas, or plant visits, ahead of vehicle launches include about 12 people per project auditing station by station, correcting process sheets, ensuring proper calibration of tools and training of workers, and speaking with plant employees about an issue.
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Larded throughout this scene is that unmistakable suggestion, yet again, that the play exists because its playwright needed — if not to right a cosmic wrong — to create a place to house or expiate his grief.
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The Sisters have come a long way, but never strayed from their mission: to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.
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“Atone (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atone%20%28for%29. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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