extenuate

Example Sentences

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Nothing can extenuate the horror of acts he spent his adult life trying to avoid.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2022

In my initial salvo, I pointed out that Yglesias had minimized the harm of copyright infringement with a rationale that could extenuate theft of any kind.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2012

Exceptionalism can be a dangerous faith because of how much it can extenuate and excuse.

From Time • Feb. 4, 2010

Thereupon his onetime guests began to stampede before the Senate committee to explain and extenuate their presence at the 38th Street house.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, with a noble confidence in a noble character, he does not extenuate.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh