Thesaurus results for ATONE (FOR)

atone (for)

verb

ə-ˈtōn

Definition of atone (for)

as in to compensate

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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Employees Are Still The Source Of Context My years in automation also taught me that employees compensate for technology long before technology compensates for them.

— Doug Shannon, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
And keyboard manufacturers occasionally implement longer-than-necessary debounce times to compensate for switch degradation over time.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026

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In the seventh inning of a 1-all tie, Teoscar Hernández redeemed himself for another fielding blunder with a single that finally drove dizzying Braves starter Tyler Mahle from the game.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
The card technically earns Citi ThankYou® Points, which can be redeemed for anything from statement credits to transfers to Citi's travel partners.

— Ryley Amond, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026

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The county’s options for the facility range from holding Discovery Place in default and taking over the nature museum to accepting Discovery Place’s terms and giving the organization decades to repay the debt, staff said.

— Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026
The tax is expected to raise about $22 million a year, and property owners would pay an average of roughly $59 annually for every $100,000 of assessed value to repay the bonds.

— Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 4 Oct. 2026

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At one point during Thursday’s 45-minute open practice/scrimmage situation, KU head coach Bill Self corrected Rosario for passing instead of taking the open 3-pointer.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2026
Researchers must develop systems that detect and correct these errors while computations continue.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of correct

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They are bound together not only by their shared grief, but also by the unspoken guilt and blame that Lux and Ella can only hope to expiate through each other.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026
Larded throughout this scene is that unmistakable suggestion, yet again, that the play exists because its playwright needed — if not to right a cosmic wrong — to create a place to house or expiate his grief.

— Rhoda Feng, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026

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