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He devises a daring, sometimes distracting but ultimately inspired format by saving his commentary for footnotes that contextualize, teasingly contradict and occasionally exculpate Rodgers from her unsparing self-assessments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

“It does not vary either to exculpate on the basis of the actor’s unusual callousness or to condemn for outraging an excessively delicate relative of the deceased,” Rennie wrote, citing the Model Penal Code.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2022

“This is a report that’s designed to exculpate the cops.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2021

But “the photos are not proof of my father being in Sobibor and may even exculpate him once forensically examined.”

From Washington Times ● Jan. 28, 2020

His former associates in the priesthood openly denounced him, to exculpate themselves from any supposed sympathy with the sentiments or with the man.

From John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch by Anonymous

In response, Bauer attorney Shawn Holley wrote: “There is no public interest in shielding those who make materially misleading complaints from disclosure of information that exculpates the alleged perpetrator.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2022

I’m not certain how to articulate what was different in a way anyone would find remotely credible, but I’m certain that it was real, and that it exculpates me.

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2019

In one passage, a “former partner” pointedly exculpates Bell: “When the Gupta project first arose, senior members of the Geopolitical team, including Bell, were quite outspoken that we should not do it.”

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 18, 2018

Saletan believes that a distinction between historical science and modern science is what exculpates the creationist:

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2014

The present condition of Europe, which ought to have been foreseen by those governments, exculpates me for having erred through expecting them to see their own interests.

From Select Speeches of Kossuth by Francis William Newman

She is pointing to their flaws because she wants to be exculpated for having chosen to disbelieve all of them.

From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2021

However the public chose to remember her, the German government exculpated Mata Hari in 1930.

From Time ● Oct. 13, 2017

He was exculpated by DNA evidence and freed in 2009 after 31 years in prison for a rape he did not commit.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2016

The last trial was, in many ways, the most astonishing, because it came four years after new DNA evidence had exculpated Rivera.

From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2015

And he bore his nieces, who cheerfully exculpated their friends from blame, back to the tables at the foot of the first Fall, where Kate and the others were beginning to spread the lunch.

From In the Mist of the Mountains by J. Macfarlane

Even Ihsan’s parents’ statements exculpating Ameen were invalid; their only admissible testimony was what was written by Dhiya, which they insist is fraudulent.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020

Meanwhile the summary punishment of plant operatives and midlevel functionaries, exculpating Soviet brass, ranks among its “final show trials,” Higginbotham writes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2019

It ends with archive television news footage of voters largely exculpating him after the inquest in 1970.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2018

“It basically removed my chances of exculpating myself from everything she said about me,” he said.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2017

If Isobel Becker had merely written him a line or two, a note exculpating herself of what her father had already explained away, he would still have thought that a world lay between them.

From Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police by James Oliver Curwood