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Recent Examples of expiation
Then, expiation in the 80th minute.
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Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 12 May 2026
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
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Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 12 May 2026
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expiation
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For starters, there is one urgent mission the pope must take on the road to atonement.—
Laura Washington,
Mercury News,
9 June 2026
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But his atonement comes too late.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
1 June 2026
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Reports also suggest that Iran expects to receive, through some unspecified payment mechanism, potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in de-facto reparations for damage caused by the war.—
Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
18 June 2026
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At least five states, including California, New York and Maryland, and more than a dozen cities, including Boston, Detroit and Philadelphia, have created have created task forces or commissions to study slavery reparations.—
Safiyah Riddle,
Fortune,
17 June 2026
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That's different than an insanity defense, which usually seeks total absolution, Schoenstein said.—
Mark Prussin,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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The point is not that the offender deserves absolution.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 June 2026
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Start by checking your credit card debt forgiveness eligibility here.—
Matt Richardson,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
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The move comes as the department prepares to implement controversial changes to the PSLF program that would give Secretary of Education Linda McMahon sweeping authority to cut off borrowers from loan forgiveness.—
Adam S. Minsky,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
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Then-President Biden gave him a full pardon in December 2024.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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Still, his odds of a pardon remain slim.—
Camila Grigera Naón,
Fortune,
17 June 2026
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Kim Adamski’s husband, takes a biologic TNF inhibitor, a specialty medicine keeping him in remission from Crohn’s.—
Livi Stanford,
Hartford Courant,
22 June 2026
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Caitlin, 24, went into remission twice after chemotherapy and a transplant after her first cancer diagnosis in April 2025.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
22 June 2026
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“Expiation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expiation. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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