exculpate

After catching a boat to Chicago, Higgins hypothesized to reporters that the trip through the Straits of Mackinac caused ice to cut the hull; his explanation helped him exculpate his employers.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 2, 2023

Nobody doubts that a clever jurist with a dictionary and a truckload of motivated reasoning can use the law to exculpate himself and inculpate others.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2023

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

The hound cringed before him and whined, as though to exculpate himself; but suddenly his whole attitude changed.

From Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa by Frederick Albion Ober

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

I want to be able to show a document such as you have there, which completely exculpates me from any charge that might at any time be brought.

From An Amiable Charlatan by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Hegseth quickly agreed with Hannity that he had been fully exculpated by the California police.

From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024

No evidence emerged linking the man to the crime at the school in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyitaw, and some testimony exculpated him.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 18, 2019

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

From Time ● Oct. 13, 2017

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

But the judge ruled that "far from exculpating her, it incriminates her or reinforces the correctness" of her conviction.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

But the overhauled ending, which sheds more light on the title character’s motivation without exculpating him, suggests the difficulty of what’s being dramatically attempted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2021

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

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

From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2018

The readiest means of exculpating Germany from complicity in the Sussex affair was eagerly seized upon and clung to.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill