exculpate

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The documentary includes an interview with a whistleblower who claimed bosses told him to doctor evidence to exculpate the agency in the death of Hernández Rojas.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026

“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

But “the photos are not proof of my father being in Sobibor and may even exculpate him once forensically examined.”

From Washington Times • Jan. 28, 2020

Does her more recent message exculpate me, or am I still indicted by the first?

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2019

With great eagerness each of them tried, the moment she entered, to exculpate herself, and prove that the other had killed the bird. 

From Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories by Wollstonecraft, Mary