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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Schools are directly compensating athletes under the post-House settlement model, third-party NIL remains an important source of income, and athletes routinely make career decisions involving millions of dollars.

— Chris Corr, Sportico.com, 17 Sep. 2026
This can result in post-pen test efforts that spend too much time remediating risks that aren’t significant (say, due to compensating controls) and can also result in not spending enough effort addressing real risks.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of compensating

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Besides the fact that cereal is good, there aren’t really any redeeming qualities.

— Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2026
The only redeeming aspect of the show happens here, on a ski slope, when their youngest daughter Valentina, who was born with Down syndrome, is treated to a lesson via an adaptive ski school.

— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of redeeming

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When that federal disaster relief money or insurance proceeds come in, those funds can go toward repaying the loans.

— Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 10 Sep. 2026
Because Leonard and the NBA Players Association signed off on his repaying $700,000, there was no further process that would require an arbitrator.

— John Hollinger, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

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Longer messages mean slower communication, so people who study error-correcting codes devise more elaborate schemes to minimize the redundancy in the transmissions while maximizing the number of errors that can be corrected.

— Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
But Lemon’s intensity and approach to correcting mistakes encourage the coaching staff.

— Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026

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