alibi
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And it provides a moral alibi for a character whose creator never gave her one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
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
Six weeks later cyber experts would blow that alibi to pieces.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
The governor has denied any knowledge of the plot and has an alibi that he was traveling to Los Angeles that day.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026
There were few physical clues, and Weaver, as it turned out, had an alibi.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Kierans described the case as "very challenging" due to the "destruction of evidence and provision of false alibis".
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
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
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
The two offered alibis, and no physical evidence linked them to the crime.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 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
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
Inc. Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson alibied his cancellation of a bridge match with the four Marx Brothers who play a fair game.
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
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