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exonerate

[ig-zon-uh-rayt] / ɪgˈzɒn əˌreɪt /


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These numbers exonerate this summer’s usual suspects of the long-run crime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Anna, ironically, works for a nonprofit that seeks to exonerate the wrongly convicted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

"We must not exonerate from all responsibility the seven decades that followed independence," he told the magazine, calling on African leaders to improve governance.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

While it’s true, as EduBirdie told Salon, that many of the online influencers peddling the “tradwife” life are actually paid professionals who make money off creating content, this hypocrisy doesn’t exonerate them.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026

Recently, an effort has been launched to exonerate George Stinney.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

An Oklahoma judge exonerates a man who spent nearly 50 years in prison on murder charges, the longest serving inmate to be declared innocent of the crime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

Body camera footage is more routinely made public, whether it exonerates the officers or raises questions.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2023

While this story might be basically accurate, I don’t think it exonerates SBF the way he seems to think it does.

From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2023

"No profession exonerates anyone from being brought to trial for a crime. If you are an artist and you commit a crime, you must respond to the law," the radio report said.

From Reuters ● Jun. 1, 2022

I can think of no answer that exonerates me.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

We know that over the past half-century, more than 200 people have been exonerated after having been sentenced to die, and scholars estimate that 4 percent of those sentenced to death are innocent.

From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026

Malcolm Alexander spent nearly 38 years in prison before being exonerated through DNA evidence in 2018.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

It pointed to a recent decision by the High Court in London that largely exonerated Renault and four other carmakers from charges that the devices were designed to cheat clean air laws.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

“I’m confident she’s going to be exonerated when all this is said and done.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

He not only exonerated Roscius, but went on the attack against his two accusers, rounding on a known favorite of the then-dictator Sulla.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Ten years later, a district court judge ruled that he was factually innocent and threw out his conviction, citing the suppression of exonerating evidence by police, among other factors.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

Only in 1906, after many twists, did the high court of appeal overturn the original verdict, exonerating Dreyfus.

From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025

"I think the idea of looking at video games and movies and so on, it's just a way of exonerating the people who are really profiting from the violence."

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2024

The Los Angeles Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal group with a reputation for exonerating wrongfully convicted criminals, is seeking to clear Peterson in the killings of Laci Peterson and their unborn son, Conner.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

John was grateful to Bertram for thus exonerating him publicly from the responsibility of having begotten him, and he inquired almost kindly what had happened.

From Poor Relations by Compton MacKenzie




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