extenuation
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Asked about it, he dodged and weaved, searching for extenuation.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2016
Committee chair Dianne Feinstein appears to offer some extenuation when she reminds us in the report's preamble of the shock and "pervasive fear" felt after 9/11.
From Chicago Tribune ● Dec. 11, 2014
Even then, some reporters' questions suggested that, if Weiner's conduct could be defined as an illness, some further extenuation might be available.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2013
It has always been noted in extenuation that literary satire thrives on vile bodies and that swinishness justifies a measure of pique.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was responsible not only in the present, but also for the souls of the faithful yet unborn through countless generations, and, if weakly untrue to its trust, it could not plead inability in extenuation.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
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