absolve
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That deal, and a similar one struck in 2024, didn’t absolve him of criminal liability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
She accused the executive of "deliberately" trying to absolve itself of responsibility by insisting the duty lies on Westminster to solve the problem.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
This documentary doesn’t absolve any sins; it highlights them.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2026
She can’t absolve her father of his failures, but she can offer him — and herself — another chance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
“Do you really think that you can absolve yourself of guilt by pretending to be someone else? I don’t like you, Fortiori. Do you know that? I don’t like you at all.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
A fractious national legislature absolves anyone of the responsibility of trying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Martinique official Serge Letchimy hailed a vote that he said had come "to shatter a system that tramples on the truth, absolves the guilty, and scorns the victims".
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
"An order that absolves a man of such a crime, to say it's not a crime, is the darkest hour in our legal system," she told the BBC.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
That view absolves us of trying to understand the systemic source of those indignities as something other than unkindness.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2024
But seeing Tano’s panicked face absolves me of those worries.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Can you imagine Magnum PI’s Tom Selleck or Burt Reynolds absolved of body hair?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
This narrative absolved leaders of responsibility and stripped communities of agency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
Mohamed Salah has been pinpointed as one factor in Liverpool's slide, but he can be absolved here.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
If the judge agrees to the US Justice Department's recommendation, Hankison would serve one day in prison and be absolved of further time behind bars because of time already served.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2025
“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Moolenaar redeemed Suozzi, absolving him of any New York weirdness.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
As you suggested, this is often referred to as an “act of God” — absolving Adam of any negligence/responsibility.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
But that may have been the actor’s way of absolving himself of his monstrous off-screen behavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
But he feared a ban would easily be overcome by tech-savvy teens, at the same time absolving parents of responsibility.
From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026
I walk away from her, guilt on my hands, absolving myself: I’m a good person.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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The Declaration of Independence
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