expiation

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Recent Examples of expiation These, however, also fall into the expiation rather than the rule category. Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025 Voss’s journey follows the largely Christian trajectory of expiation and redemption from the sin of pride; the constellation of the Southern Cross hangs over him just before his death. Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024 Constituting a kind of trilogy about expiation through violence—whether toward others or toward oneself—the films have a newfound starkness that reflects the severity of their subjects. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024 Apollo was a villain in the first Rocky film, a more nuanced antagonist in the second, a best friend and guru in the third, and a pretext for revenge and the expiation of guilt in the fourth. Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for expiation
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Noun
  • There's no atonement for the fact that when police do arrest criminals, the judges and prosecutors basically give them a slap on the wrist and send them on their way.
    Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2025
  • After Moscow is obliterated, Fonda orders the nuclear destruction of New York City as atonement, hoping to avert full Soviet retaliation.
    Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Is there anything to fear in the way Shillingford describes what reparations for Black and Indigenous people looks like to her?
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Its first-ever color feature, In the Shadow of Honor, which was going to be filmed in Indonesia, was canceled due to disagreements between the two countries related to colonial war reparations.
    Michael Taube, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Subsequently, Pope Francis granted SSPX priests a slow trickle of faculties, such as the ability to officiate marriages or perform the sacrament of absolution in limited circumstances.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Instead there was a focus on identitarian politics, as though an acknowledgement of one’s whiteness, a telling of one’s awareness of racist histories, can act as absolution from them.
    Emily Van Duyne July 24, Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • Here’s what the latest developments mean for borrowers and student loan forgiveness programs, and what to expect in the coming months as the litigation process plays out.
    Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • At least one woman who spoke Monday expressed hope that Pratt could change his life and offered him forgiveness.
    Alex Riggins, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Savannah, who led the charge to obtain pardons for her parents after they were sentenced to federal prison in 2022 on bank fraud and tax evasion charges, learned that her parents would be released less than 24 hours before it was set to happen.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Memos unearthed from Biden’s term show his aides wanted the president to personally sign pardon decisions and advised against using the autopen on clemency decisions.
    Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Robach entered remission in 2014.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Getty Images Since the landmark stem cell transplantation which saw Timothy Ray Brown become the first person to be cured of HIV in 2007, ten people around the world have been reported either cured or in long-term remission from the virus through similar procedures.
    Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025

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