exculpate
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The documentary includes an interview with a whistleblower who claimed bosses told him to doctor evidence to exculpate the agency in the death of Hernández Rojas.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026
After catching a boat to Chicago, Higgins hypothesized to reporters that the trip through the Straits of Mackinac caused ice to cut the hull; his explanation helped him exculpate his employers.
From Washington Times • Sep. 2, 2023
Nobody doubts that a clever jurist with a dictionary and a truckload of motivated reasoning can use the law to exculpate himself and inculpate others.
From Slate • Jun. 26, 2023
“It does not vary either to exculpate on the basis of the actor’s unusual callousness or to condemn for outraging an excessively delicate relative of the deceased,” Rennie wrote, citing the Model Penal Code.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2022
With great eagerness each of them tried, the moment she entered, to exculpate herself, and prove that the other had killed the bird.
From Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories by Wollstonecraft, Mary
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