alibi
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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
I had to make sure I asked Marcus for his alibi witness’s name, since he didn’t give it to me in his last letter.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
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
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
McCulloch said those alibis provided by Taylor’s daughter and her relatives were “completely made up.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
The police reported on Salim’s friends’ alibis the day he disappeared.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
Williams excoriated feminist leaders who excused Bill and alibied for him.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2017
James E. Barrett alibied: "There was a hole in the wall and I just fell through."
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
"That was issued before my time," he alibied.
From The Cartels Jungle by Irving E. Cox
By now Detroit was through alibiing for '58.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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The Westing Game
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