Thesaurus results for EXPIATING

expiating

verb

present participle of expiate

as in compensating

to make up for (an offense) Yom Kippur is the holy day on which Jews are expected to expiate sins committed during the past year

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Leaders should ask how much engineering effort is advancing the application, and how much is compensating for the data architecture underneath it.

— Nada Usina, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
The European Commission is also running an antitrust probe to determine if Google is fairly compensating publishers for using their content in AI answers.

— Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 30 Sep. 2026

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Despite these issues, salty whey still has one redeeming quality.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2026
One thing regulators are not going to do is kill the idea of exchanging securities for shares, because all the big ETFs rely on redeeming and creating units that aren’t taxable as part of their daily operations.

— Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026

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After Newsom’s parents filed for divorce in 1971, Newsom was unofficially adopted by Gordon, repaying the favor the Newsoms had extended decades earlier.

— Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026
The state is currently repaying more than $71 billion in general obligation bonds.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026

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What can wait beyond the first day Some recovery tasks will continue beyond the first day, including disputing fraudulent accounts, correcting credit reports and following up with creditors.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
During practice, Blanco runs the mariachi through the setlist, correcting an out-of-tune student and improving an intonation.

— Jessica Hill, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

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