alibi

The Fed calls this being data dependent, a phrase with the cadence of a discipline and the function of an alibi.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

During trial, Miles presented an alibi defense that included testimony from his parents, 12-year-old son, a neighbor in Las Vegas and the manager of his Las Vegas apartment, according to the district attorney’s office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

But he was released on the basis of his alibi.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

But he got his first name wrong, and the person he actually accused turned out to have a firm alibi.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

There was no way I could forget about Marcus’s alibi witness, especially now that I had her name.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks

Baker’s housemates, Duncan Martinez and Nathan Blalock, both military veterans in their early 20s, had been the last known people to see him alive, and served as each other’s alibis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025

However, only three of them were arrested and there is no evidence the alibis they provided were checked.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025

Both Hall’s wife, scion of a prominent and wealthy New Jersey family, and Mills’s working-class husband appeared to have solid alibis.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022

How many years has it been since each of you was your own man or woman, unfettered by the burden of lies, alibis and pretending not to see?

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2022

Which left the Johns, father and son, but they had also submitted provable alibis.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Williams excoriated feminist leaders who excused Bill and alibied for him.

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2017

When Berlin was bombed, Germans alibied that the R.A.F.:

From Time Magazine Archive

He damned his critics, alibied himself, said that his grief and helplessness, bringing on another attack of tuberculosis, had brought him to the edge of the grave.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The banquet hall was somewhat overheated," he alibied, "and President Kemal merely invited His Excellency the Egyptian Minister to remove his fez for his own greater comfort."

From Time Magazine Archive

He had recalled Sim Colby’s black ones while thinking of unusual eyes in general and had, in passing, set him down as one who stood alibied.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford

The combination of televised second-guessing, N.F.L. stonewalling and coaches complaining, perhaps alibiing, has brought the striped-shirt arbiters a notoriety they would just as soon had passed them by.

From Time Magazine Archive

By now Detroit was through alibiing for '58.

From Time Magazine Archive