atonements

noun

plural of atonement
as in reparations
an act taken in order to redeem oneself He resolved to make atonement to those he had wronged by doing good deeds for them.

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reparations
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  • Alameda County supervisors voted Tuesday to create a permanent reparations committee for Black residents, moving a sweeping set of recommendations from study to the harder question of implementation.
    — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 1 July 2026
  • This vessel has a controversial past, built by Nazi Germany in 1935 as SSS *Horst Wessel*, named after a Nazi martyr, before being taken as war reparations by the US.
    — Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
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