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Recent Examples of expiation
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.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
The result is at once a ghost story, a tale of amour fou, a settling of accounts, and, one senses, a deeply personal act of expiation.
—Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 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
In that lighter air of expiation, women lit candles on the edge of the street that led from the shrine to the place that marked Hussein’s camp on the field of battle.
—Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
The result is at once a ghost story, a tale of amour fou, a settling of accounts, and, one senses, a deeply personal act of expiation.
—Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 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
In that lighter air of expiation, women lit candles on the edge of the street that led from the shrine to the place that marked Hussein’s camp on the field of battle.
—Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expiation
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One long-running attempt met a setback on Feb. 21, 2025, when the U.S. Supreme Court threw out an appeals court ruling in favor of survivors seeking atonement from Hungary’s state railways.—
Sarah Federman,
The Conversation,
16 Apr. 2025
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Her attendance is part of her atonement to Gary, who wants to meet the tourists his girlfriend hooked up with.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2025
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Turner has been walking to D.C. monthly for 31 months to push for reparations.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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Any future project to restore full economic ties with Russia will need to generate funds for Ukraine’s reconstruction or even for some form of reparations.—
ALEXANDER GABUEV,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Apr. 2025
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The road to Trump begins, in some moral sense, with the absolution of Nixon.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2025
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The clergy could expect the fulfillment of prophecy, and the poor and the oppressed could look forward to absolution and better living quarters.—
Arthur Krystal,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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The Institute of Student Loan Advisors has a database of student loan forgiveness programs by state.—
Annie Nova,
CNBC,
26 Apr. 2025
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Under former President Joe Biden, the Education Department tried multiple times to give broad forgiveness of student loans, only to be stopped by courts.—
Todd Karpovich,
Baltimore Sun,
24 Apr. 2025
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Like the more than a hundred political prisoners released under the Vatican deal, Ferrer and Navarro were not given a pardon or amnesty but were released on conditional parole.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2025
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In his first term, Trump did not issue a pardon until August 2017, about half a year after taking office.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
29 Apr. 2025
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By contrast, most nonreligious people accept the possibility of spontaneous remissions, inexplicable recoveries, and the rest of the medical mysteries that the Church calls healing miracles.—
Emily Harnett,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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For example, all 12 patients in a 2022 clinical trial testing one type of immunotherapy had their rectal cancer completely disappear, without remission or adverse effects.—
Deborah Fuller,
The Conversation,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Expiation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expiation. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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