alibi
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And it provides a moral alibi for a character whose creator never gave her one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Fed calls this being data dependent, a phrase with the cadence of a discipline and the function of an alibi.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
He said that when the issue of McCullagh's alibi was later revisited, considerable efforts had to be undertaken just to seize the computer.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
The governor has denied any knowledge of the plot and has an alibi that he was traveling to Los Angeles that day.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026
I had my journal next to me so I could write down everything Marcus told me about his alibi witness.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
While this is a true crime story with shaky alibis and prosecutorial misconduct, it is less a whodunit and more a nuanced exploration of reasonable doubt and how our system works or doesn’t.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Kierans described the case as "very challenging" due to the "destruction of evidence and provision of false alibis".
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Both Hall’s wife, scion of a prominent and wealthy New Jersey family, and Mills’s working-class husband appeared to have solid alibis.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
That they had alibis for their whereabouts on the day that Malcolm was killed.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2021
The police reported on Salim’s friends’ alibis the day he disappeared.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
Williams excoriated feminist leaders who excused Bill and alibied for him.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2017
Inc. Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson alibied his cancellation of a bridge match with the four Marx Brothers who play a fair game.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The banquet hall was somewhat overheated," he alibied, "and President Kemal merely invited His Excellency the Egyptian Minister to remove his fez for his own greater comfort."
From Time Magazine Archive
When Berlin was bombed, Germans alibied that the R.A.F.:
From Time Magazine Archive
"That was issued before my time," he alibied.
From The Cartels Jungle by Irving E. Cox
The combination of televised second-guessing, N.F.L. stonewalling and coaches complaining, perhaps alibiing, has brought the striped-shirt arbiters a notoriety they would just as soon had passed them by.
From Time Magazine Archive
By now Detroit was through alibiing for '58.
From Time Magazine Archive
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