How to Use forgiveness in a Sentence

forgiveness

noun
  • She treats us with kindness and forgiveness.
  • Trump has criticized the scope of Biden's student loan forgiveness.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The program allows people who were defrauded by their school to receive loan forgiveness.
    Zach Halaschak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Moral hazard is written all over Biden’s student loan forgiveness proposal.
    Charlie Dent, CNN, 26 Aug. 2022
  • These borrowers will receive a total of $1.4 million in loan forgiveness.
    Annie Nova, CNBC, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The Biden administration made two more attempts to enact mass student loan forgiveness.
    Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Experts say paperwork hurdles or legal challenges could delay or prevent some borrowers from seeing forgiveness.
    Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2022
  • LaBeouf described talking through his feelings and learning about the Christian understanding of sin and forgiveness as key to pulling him out of the darkest time in his life.
    Fox News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Defenders of President Biden’s half-trillion-dollar loan forgiveness argue student debt is a drag on the economy.
    Allysia Finley, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The film stars Salma Hayek as a woman who witnessed horrific violence and war crimes, and plays on themes of revenge and forgiveness, according to the director.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 27 Aug. 2022
  • In August, the justices shut down another proposal by the administration to lower monthly payments and speed up loan forgiveness.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
  • And all of those things may one day lead to forgiveness.
    Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Her film doesn’t aim to be a guide, a balm or an ode to forgiveness.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
  • Their exchanges are tinged with the hurt of old wounds and the hope of future forgiveness.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2022
  • This is not the type of ending where there’s forgiveness.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • At the heart of both the exhibition and the film is the concept of forgiveness.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Click here to read the latest in the student debt forgiveness saga.
    Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 June 2024
  • Didn’t the Supreme Court rule in favor of the loan forgiveness program?
    Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
  • In the first five days of the fee forgiveness program, which runs through March, WPL said the library cleared over 400 accounts of fines.
    Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Here is where the plans stand: Student loan forgiveness.
    Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 8 July 2023
  • The latest plan takes a two-pronged approach to loan forgiveness.
    Preston Cooper, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The film is filled with contrasts, Norway and India, life and death, hate and forgiveness, love and fear.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 18 Nov. 2022
  • In the film, the man later returns to Marley's home to beg for the musician's forgiveness.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a chance that the student loan forgiveness program may be trashed, while gun reforms would not see the light of day.
    Quartz, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Thank you for that story on Meyers Leonard and his quest for forgiveness.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2023
  • At the heart of their grievances is greed — Bo’s for money, Frank’s for forgiveness and Toni’s for revenge.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Bill Lawrence really talks about how the arc of season 2 is this theme of forgiveness.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Love, heartbreak, and forgiveness are the name of the game this week as Firefly Lane season two arrives.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2022
  • This summer, the court struck down Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan.
    Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 10 Aug. 2023
  • In their last message, Hale said that something bad was about to happen and asked for forgiveness.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2023

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