alibi
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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
But he was released on the basis of his alibi.
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
But he got his first name wrong, and the person he actually accused turned out to have a firm alibi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
“Unless we know exactly what time the property was stolen, and from what address, an alibi is irrelevant.”
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Kierans described the case as "very challenging" due to the "destruction of evidence and provision of false alibis".
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Baker’s housemates, Duncan Martinez and Nathan Blalock, both military veterans in their early 20s, had been the last known people to see him alive, and served as each other’s alibis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
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
How many years has it been since each of you was your own man or woman, unfettered by the burden of lies, alibis and pretending not to see?
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
Excuses, alibis, and wild cover-up stories chased each other around Harry’s brain, each more feeble than the last.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
Williams excoriated feminist leaders who excused Bill and alibied for him.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2017
"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
He damned his critics, alibied himself, said that his grief and helplessness, bringing on another attack of tuberculosis, had brought him to the edge of the grave.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He had recalled Sim Colby’s black ones while thinking of unusual eyes in general and had, in passing, set him down as one who stood alibied.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
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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The Westing Game
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