exculpated

Example Sentences

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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

Put before any jury of the Five Towns as evidence of character, they would almost have exculpated a murderer.

From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold