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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The grant money will hopefully make managing those problems easier by compensating interns for their work, Young said.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Mar. 2026 -
Since then, Tech and Conference USA have failed to agree on a financial settlement aimed at compensating the league for the Bulldogs' departure.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Mar. 2026
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Its trip-planning aspects overlap somewhat with those of this new main MTA app, but TrainTime is largely geared toward buying and redeeming tickets and will continue to be so for a while.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
25 Mar. 2026
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Perhaps the only redeeming quality is the show’s art direction inspired by legendary Marvel comic-book artist Jack Kirby.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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Instead of repaying the loans, borrowers just gave their properties to the bank, which sold them to other banks at a paper profit, according to Namazi.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
23 Mar. 2026
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The pain has also filtered out to private-equity companies that have lent money to software companies, which need to withstand the AI threat to keep repaying their debt.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2026
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The resulting management overhead — spending elite engineering time correcting outputs and paying the high token costs of ungrounded prompts — eventually outweighs the initial speed of creation.—
Mohith Shrivastava,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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This suggests the players were continuously correcting their movements mid-execution.—
David Van den Heever,
The Conversation,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Atoning (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atoning%20%28for%29. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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