excuse

Not having kids of her own deprived Ortega of the one excuse her family would have recognized.

So I had a really good excuse to meet my neighbors in the last 60 days.

He opened with a "history" of human existence, but was cut off within minutes by Judge Aileen Cannon who excused the jury and told Routh he had to restrict his comments to the case.

But in this fragile moment, we can’t use that violence as an excuse to curb more freedoms.

Torres uses blue and red to exemplify his anti-capitalist stance by endearingly explaining how those with extreme wealth maneuver tax evasion, how governments allow and excuse war crimes, and how pervasive individualism prevents progress.