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Recent Examples of expiation
Many religious communities around the world include an injunction to acknowledge wrongdoing through expiation.
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Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
Her death must be an expiation, her down-going as sheer, blind, and sudden as the breathless plunge of a Peruvian child hurled down a stony chasm to placate the mountain spirit.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
The catalog essays feature ideological arm-twisting and theoretical mind games that leave me wondering whether the people involved regard their joy as a sin demanding expiation.
—Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
So writing the play was an act of expiation?
—David Marchese David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
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Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
Her death must be an expiation, her down-going as sheer, blind, and sudden as the breathless plunge of a Peruvian child hurled down a stony chasm to placate the mountain spirit.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
The catalog essays feature ideological arm-twisting and theoretical mind games that leave me wondering whether the people involved regard their joy as a sin demanding expiation.
—Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
So writing the play was an act of expiation?
—David Marchese David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expiation
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In place of the original’s portrait of political awakening, the sequel follows an artist (Milena Smit) who’s checked herself into the Pit as a form of personal atonement.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2024
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Perhaps Netanyahu’s most disquieting elision in his U.N. speech, in this season of atonement, is that Moses’s admonition to choose blessings over curses was aimed specifically at the Children of Israel.Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
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Any re-entry before Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty is fully restored, war crimes perpetrators are brought to justice, and reparations are addressed will not only tarnish their reputation but also signal corporate complicity in Russia’s ongoing aggression.Nezir Sinani, Fortune Europe, 21 Nov. 2024
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Members of the Women’s Climate Assembly (WCA) are seeking reparations for environmental and social damages inflicted by historic mining, and a greater say in the extraction of critical minerals needed for the world’s transition to clean energy.Kim Harrisberg and Jack Graham, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2024
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As both Lawrence and Segel tease, all three characters are steering toward an emotional journey that may or may not end with absolution or reconciliation.Nick Caruso, TVLine, 16 Oct. 2024
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Garner’s version of the character (who has since been played by Elodie Yung on Netflix) isn’t particularly well regarded by fans, but the character’s poor reception plays into her story here as someone searching for absolution and a way to bring her story to fruition.Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 25 July 2024
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The incoming Trump administration is unlikely to continue those programs, as the issue of loan forgiveness has gotten more polarized.Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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There is precedent for mass debt forgiveness: In the 1990s and early 2000s, the IMF led the Highly Indebted Poor Countries initiative to restructure debts.Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2024
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Woods was one of 19 Thanksgiving eve pardons by Newsom.Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 28 Nov. 2024
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In decades prior, presidents would occasionally receive turkeys from the poultry industry and decide not to eat them without an official pardon.Emily Hung, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2024
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What’s more, twice as many people in the group that got the active treatment reported remission of their depressive symptoms compared with people in the placebo group: 45% vs. 22%.Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
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Evidence suggests that these ingredients may worsen intestinal inflammation, thereby contributing to disease progression and flare-ups after remission of Crohn's disease.7 10.Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 28 Oct. 2024
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“Expiation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expiation. Accessed 6 Dec. 2024.
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