excuse
Example Sentences
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“This week we got some excuses for the market to really accelerate this.”
But I will excuse it, and hope they return with more.
From Los Angeles Times
I don’t want you to think I’m sidestepping that, or excusing it, or even forgiving it; it’s not for me to forgive, anyhow.
From Literature
The man excused himself and batted aside a cloth curtain in the doorway of the back room.
From Literature
Montagu Norman, the governor of the Bank of England for a quarter-century after World War I, lived by the maxim: “Never explain, never excuse.”
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
