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Example sentences for: atone

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8 million can't be disappointing, and the press is wailing about "disappointing" grosses to atone for overhyping the film.
Reed feels passionately that white evangelicals must atone for their opposition to the civil-rights movement.)
There is even greater irony in the reports that management will atone for its sins with a $176 million payment to black employees--all of which will come directly from the pockets of those now doubly victimized stockholders.
' The term is used largely in the Christian sense of Jesus dying to atone for the sins of man; his death reconciled, “made one,” God and man.
Also, a surprisingly favorable article about the Christian Coalition's campaign to recruit blacks and help rebuild burned black churches: This seems to be a truly sincere effort to atone for a history of white Christian racism.