extenuation
Example Sentences
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In extenuation of himself, he says “no one anticipated” today’s facts: worldwide energy shortages and an unusually cold winter forecast.
From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2021
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
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 Washington Post • 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
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
