atoning (for)

present participle of atone (for)
as in making amends for
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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Verb
  • Sanders is known for his impressive tackling ability, compensating for his rather lackluster skills in coverage.
    Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Adidas and the Oaxaca government were expected to hold talks focused on compensating the Indigenous community, Mexico’s Deputy Secretary of Cultural Development Marina Núñez Bespalova said Friday.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • When redeeming the free cone at any Graeter's location, customers can make a donation directly to The Cure Starts Now.
    Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
  • What Happens Next The carriers said Condor would move into the new Terminal 6 at JFK next year, positioning it adjacent to JetBlue's Terminal 5, and TrueBlue members could immediately begin earning and redeeming points on Condor flights via JetBlue's website and app.
    Ben Kelly, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • He's spent 20 years repaying this debt kindness.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Their matchmaker, Aklilu, was repaying a kindness by Ceccarelli from many years ago.
    Susan Young, People.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • A little over the top, maybe, but full marks for acknowledging a mistake and correcting it quickly.
    Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Their innovation was something called backpropagation, or backprop for short, which was a method for correcting the outputs of the middle, hidden layer of neurons during each training pass so that the network as a whole could learn efficiently.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Atoning (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atoning%20%28for%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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