expiations

Definition of expiationsnext
plural of expiation

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Noun
  • In the United States, federal reparations legislation has stalled for decades.
    ABC News, ABC News, 27 May 2026
  • Iran is demanding reparations for the war's damage, an end to the blockade and an immediate end to the fighting, including in Lebanon.
    Garrett Downs, CNBC, 17 May 2026
Noun
  • The Tribune has reviewed the names of people who have received pardons or commutations going back to the 1950s.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • Senegal supporters who were detained in Morocco in the wake of the chaotic Africa Cup of Nations final in January have been released after receiving royal pardons.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 25 May 2026
Noun
  • Working for his hometown has its satisfactions After living all over the world for 25 years in the foreign service, Marc Shaw, 51, was ready to come home to Kansas City, Missouri.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Niazi doesn’t discuss the frustrations or satisfactions of this process.
    Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Global economic outlook worsens over Iran war The US and Iran appeared still willing to reach a peace deal despite American strikes and Tehran’s threats of reprisals — but the global economic fallout from the conflict deepened.
    semafor.com, semafor.com, 29 May 2026
  • During the McCarthy era, overreaching laws, surveillance, and public and private sector reprisals ostensibly targeted alleged communists.
    Bruce Schneier, The Conversation, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • By simultaneously hitting three or more targets, these agents promise not only deeper responses but potentially longer remissions in some of the hardest-to-treat cancers.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The reps and warranties and indemnities clauses will define their obligations.
    Bruce Werner, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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