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“It was seeing other people who had sinned beyond anything I could even conceptualize also being found in Christ that made me feel like, ‘OK, that gives me hope,’” LaBeouf added.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2022

He left the church shortly thereafter, after confessing to the congregation as a whole that he had sinned in such a way that it would necessitate him stepping down from ministry.

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2022

The show had sinned by failing to rack up the boffo audience numbers sufficient to convince HBO that it would become a sensation, like “The Sopranos,” which was winding down after six seasons.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019

In a statement released by email this week, the board said the church had sinned in its treatment of the Denhollanders and had sought their forgiveness.

From Washington Post • May 31, 2018

In spite of the saints, his mother and his father, the warnings he had heard from his earliest beginnings, he had sinned with his hands a sin that was hard to forgive.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin