extenuate

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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

Nothing can extenuate the fact that Sr. Machado is still President of Cuba today �except the fact that he was re-elected as the candidate of all three political parties in 1928, having outmaneuvered all opposition.

From Time Magazine Archive

Constantia exhorted him, in the most earnest and pathetic manner, to return and recant, or extenuate, his former declarations.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden