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Traditional absentee excuses include military deployments or illness.

In fact, Texas is one of only six remaining states that are using strict lists of excuses to decide who can vote by mail this year.

Without broader change, Markowitz argued, the city will probably just find another law to use as an excuse to punish speech they don’t like.

That takes care of those five and whatever excuses might be connected to how they were obtained and who did what to obtain them.

From Ozy

If your organization is smaller, don’t use the small sample size as an excuse to avoid this work.

From Fortune

Whatever the excuse, in 2008 we were all subjected to Celebrity Apprentice.

Augustus, also known as Augustus the Strong, was a party-boy, and loved any excuse to celebrate.

This same fear has recently resurfaced as the number one excuse for blocking a proposed subway through Beverly Hills.

But since the government has now permitted the River God to leave the U.K., that excuse can no longer wash.

In it, Weber suggested approaching a woman with lines like: “Excuse me, but you look beautiful.”

One of the simplest of these childish tricks is the invention of an excuse for not instantly obeying a command, as "Come here!"

Could he be conscious of all this, and not excuse the unsteady youth—accuse himself?

I must admit that there is some excuse for you; the pearl of Andalusia is undoubtedly ravissante.

"A woman's particular reason is a man's feeble excuse," murmured Sir Lucien rudely.

Now she knew why her expected guest had not come last night, or remembered to send an excuse.

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On this page you'll find 166 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to excuse, such as: alibi, apology, justification, pretext, rationalization, and substitute.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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