make amends
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I’ll be back home in a couple of days, and we can make amends then.
From Literature
Others took issue with BAFTA’s delay in sending the ceremony’s host, Alan Cumming, to the podium to read what they deemed to be insufficient efforts to make amends: After Cumming explained that Davidson’s tics are involuntary, he said, “We apologize if you are offended tonight.”
From Salon
Declan Rice was making all these runs too, bursting forward to try to make amends for his mistake for Tottenham's equaliser, so there was all sorts going on.
From BBC
Diego Simeone's side host Espanyol later on, aiming to make amends after last weekend's 3-0 defeat by Rayo.
From Barron's
He apologized at a New Hampshire synagogue, and ahead of a second presidential bid four years later, he worked to make amends with the Jewish community.
From Salon
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