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Example sentences for: atonement

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The last decade has witnessed a spate of public atonement.
(In a sort of Atonement Watch, the NYT runs a chronology with excerpts of the six Clinton apologies to date.)
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has asked all African-Americans to observe Thursday, Oct. 16, as a "day of atonement," and to stay home from work or school to fast and repent.
One former chancellor dropped to his knees in a Warsaw ghetto in symbolic atonement.
It's not just Clinton's sympathetic promiscuity that accounts for the recent boom in the atonement.