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It's been a terrible season, but the team has a shot at redemption if they can beat their cross-town rival.

The movie, Shawshank Redemption, depicts redemption in many ways. The injustice that permits the corrupt prison warden to thrive is made up when he is arrested. Andy's escape from prison with the warden's ill-gotten gains helps to make up for his false imprisonment. And Andy makes up for having failed his wife by helping others generally and in particular by saving Red.

I wondered why he'd written Van Houten in those last days instead of me, telling Van Houten that he'd be redeemed if only he gave me my sequel.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

If the American's eventual victory didn't begin to redeem Matt's own sulky youth, at least it edged the game out of the private migraine of abnormal introversion and into the mingled thing out there, the everyday melee of competing states and material forces.  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

When I decamped from Boulder for Alaska, my head swimming with visions of glory and redemption on the Devils Thumb, it didn't occur to me that I might be bound by the same cause-and-effect relationships that governed the actions of others.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

In his dying days, Mac had redeemed himself.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

It disappoints her, because she desperately wants to find something redeeming about him.  (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007

Edmund redeems himself.†  (source) R. J. Palacio, Augie & Me, 2015

You're unredeemed before God," he'd say.†  (source) James McBride, The Color of Water, 1996

CHORUS OF ANGELS Christ is arisen, Redeem'd from decay.†  (source) Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), Faust -- Part 1, 1833

34:22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.†  (source) The Bible, Old Testament, 1611

The only way to redeem yourself is to enlist after you sell your boats.  (source) Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 1936

And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

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One afternoon when Brian and I had come home to an empty fridge, we went out to the alley behind the house looking for bottles to redeem.  (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

In it I've included information about how to redeem the free plane tickets and info about our hotel and schedule for the days we are in D.C.  (source) Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind, 2010

Is it too much to ask that I meet my Redeemer with a healthy nose?†  (source) Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1996

But certainly not irredeemable.†  (source) Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, 2001

The people at the cafeteria were civilians, and they didn't want any part of our meal tickets, even though a sergeant tried to explain to the head of the cafeteria that the U.S. Army would redeem them.  (source) Walter Dean Myers, Fallen Angels, 1988

He used to sit in a glass booth at the supermarket batching personal checks and redeemed coupons ... subject to the casual abuse of passing strangers in the world.  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

One would say that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man.†  (source) Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

If he possesses an unusual share of native energy, or the enervating magic of place do not operate too long upon him, his forfeited powers may be redeemable.  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

But why punish an innocent, unless in the end everyone was guilty of unredeemable sin, programmed by somesibling, or so the Mormon Church claimed, of God above?†  (source) Ellen Hopkins, Burned, 2006

When she's not reading, Carol says, she's gathering up bottles and cans across Skid Row and taking them to a redemption center.  (source) Steve Lopez, The Soloist, 1995

Babysitting and tutoring and doing other kids' homework and mowing lawns and redeeming bottles and selling scrap metal didn't count.  (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

I recognized the Prelude, from Handel's Messiah—"I know that my Redeemer liveth."†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989