Thesaurus results for ATONING (FOR)

atoning (for)

verb

present participle of atone (for)

as in making amends for

to make up for (an offense) tried to atone for forgetting their anniversary by giving his wife a truly extravagant gift

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There is also the concern that AI strip-mines content without compensating its creators.

— Mark Schilling, Variety, 29 Oct. 2026
Returning too quickly — or compensating for a weaker body part — can sometimes set you up for another injury.

— Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of compensating

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That would have worked out fine when Fochesato tried redeeming his Timeless Ticket for a potential World Series game in 2018, when the Brewers reached the NL Championship Series.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
The Brewers also encouraged fans redeeming postseason seats to do so before the start of public sale periods.

— Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of redeeming

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Congress can fix the rule and avoid these problems by creating a safe harbor for programs whose graduates carry modest debt — under $20,000 at the median, federal and private combined — and have a track record of repaying it.

— Nathan Bruschi, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026
Highlands has proposed repaying the state through deductions from future state funding, but the bankruptcy court deferred a decision on that proposal until the final hearing in November.

— Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of repaying

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If a suspicious sample directly reduces a model’s reward, the model could learn to hide its behavior instead of correcting it.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
The Bridgewater woman started working at the Quincy RMV in 2019 and was in charge of transactions that included issuing duplicate titles, changing ownership, amending and correcting titles, and adding liens.

— Matt Schooley, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026

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