Words similar to expiation

Example sentences for: expiation

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Deborah Mathis, Jack Germond, Nina Totenberg ( Inside Washington ), and Brit Hume ( Fox News Sunday ) detect hollowness in Clinton's teary expiation for international silence on Rwanda.
Shrugs the journalist, by way of expiation, "It wasn't my story."