extenuation

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Asked about it, he dodged and weaved, searching for extenuation.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2016

Committee chair Dianne Feinstein appears to offer some extenuation when she reminds us in the report's preamble of the shock and "pervasive fear" felt after 9/11.

From Chicago Tribune • Dec. 11, 2014

Even then, some reporters' questions suggested that, if Weiner's conduct could be defined as an illness, some further extenuation might be available.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2013

It was no extenuation of his conduct that he had been trying to restore discipline in a madhouse of a prison in a Mississippi Army camp.

From Time Magazine Archive

What could be expected of such men in retreat, when even Lord Melville had just said in extenuation of our army that the worst men make the best soldiers?

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe