exculpated

Example Sentences

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She is pointing to their flaws because she wants to be exculpated for having chosen to disbelieve all of them.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2021

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

From Time • Oct. 13, 2017

He was exculpated by DNA evidence and freed in 2009 after 31 years in prison for a rape he did not commit.

From Washington Times • Sep. 28, 2016

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

The child then said he was St. Onirià, exculpated his mother, and said his grandfather would see him again when the dead spoke with the living.

From Italian Popular Tales by Crane, Thomas Frederick