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extenuate
Example Sentences
In general, getting in touch with someone at Etsy to resolve problems or explain extenuating circumstances feels harder than ever.
Kolker chose his contexts very carefully and omitted many extenuating facts on Dorland’s side, and subsequent revelations complicated the narrative he presented.
They attempted to extenuate their crimes by the hardships they had suffered, but in vain.
This reflection may extenuate my faults in their effects, but it must aggravate them in their source.
The Lords' committee extenuate the presumption that either knights or burgesses sat in any of these parliaments.
If some dozen of the conniving deputies had been sent there, Warden Tapp might have had less to extenuate.
But whether he is to be believed or not, the fact that four of the prisoners went down in irons is impossible to extenuate.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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