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Recent Examples of expiation
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.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expiation
Noun
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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
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But the most humiliating atonement often came in the form of a public walk of shame.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
6 June 2025
Noun
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Therefore, no additional legal obligations exist that may create a call for reparations or action not directly negotiated.—
Jon McGowan,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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The problem is rooted in the historic catastrophe visited upon European Jews — and the historic reparations negotiated on survivors’ behalf.—
Andrew Lapin,
Sun Sentinel,
3 July 2025
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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
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But while visitors may find plenty of reasons to feel remorse when their Vegas sojourn ends, absolution might be found in the city’s renewable energy boom.—
Max Bearak,
New York Times,
24 June 2025
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The emotional episode centers on the power of forgiveness and second chances.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
11 Aug. 2025
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And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.—
Dan Sheehan,
Literary Hub,
11 Aug. 2025
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The pardon erased her conviction and ended her sentence immediately.—
Sarah Jones,
People.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Collins’s prison sentence began in October 2020, only to be sprung early two months later by Trump’s pardon.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
15 Aug. 2025
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Dvorak is also developing a Bad Survivor TV series inspired by her time as a model in Manhattan while hiding her cancer remission.—
Catherine Santino,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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That’s important during remission, as your body works to heal the lining of the gut and restore the right balance of bacteria, Dr. Nahar says.—
Mara Santilli,
SELF,
27 June 2025
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“Expiation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expiation. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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