exculpated

Example Sentences

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She is pointing to their flaws because she wants to be exculpated for having chosen to disbelieve all of them.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2021

No evidence emerged linking the man to the crime at the school in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyitaw, and some testimony exculpated him.

From Washington Times • Dec. 18, 2019

However the public chose to remember her, the German government exculpated Mata Hari in 1930.

From Time • Oct. 13, 2017

The last trial was, in many ways, the most astonishing, because it came four years after new DNA evidence had exculpated Rivera.

From The New Yorker • May 22, 2015

The notorious Bishop of Clogher, for instance, exculpated himself in a criminal information by an affidavit, and the result was, the man who published the truth of that wretch groaned in a jail!!!

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne