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 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 is no evidence the Ghanaian investigators ever tested Adusah's alibi - the whole reason for his middle-of-the night departure.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 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

While this is a true crime story with shaky alibis and prosecutorial misconduct, it is less a whodunit and more a nuanced exploration of reasonable doubt and how our system works or doesn’t.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Over the coming weeks, 572 men provided alibis to police that ruled them out of the investigation, but no leads emerged.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Other potential suspects had alibis of their own.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

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

Excuses, alibis, and wild cover-up stories chased each other around Harry’s brain, each more feeble than the last.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2017

"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

The subsequent aggression of Bolivia against Paraguay was sonorously alibied, last week, by Bolivian delegate Diez de Medina, addressing the Conference in Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

James E. Barrett alibied: "There was a hole in the wall and I just fell through."

From Time Magazine Archive

"That was issued before my time," he alibied.

From The Cartels Jungle by Irving E. Cox

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