exculpate

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

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

“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

It is depressing that it still has to be said, but: Testimonials from women—especially powerful women—do not exculpate accused harassers.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2018

You would have allowed any one of your servants to exculpate himself, but your grandson was immediately pronounced a criminal.

From Saint Michael A Romance by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

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

If he continually chastens his language and style, or exculpates himself from mistakes, it is the same impulse which prompts his passionate desire for cleanliness and brightness, of the home and of the body.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga

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

After spending decades in prison, they learned from an article in the Washington Post that prosecutors had withheld evidence that could have exculpated them.

From Slate ● Apr. 1, 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

Under this promise he has remained from that time to the time you see him at your bar, and he has neither denied, exculpated, explained, or apologized for his conduct in any one single instance.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

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

If that were so, Hill's version of how he came to draw the plan was deliberately false and had been concocted for the purpose of exculpating himself.

From The Hampstead Mystery by John R. (John Reay) Watson