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exonerate

verb as in excuse, clear of responsibility or blame

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Perlin said the science has been “tested and shown to be reliable” and pointed out that TrueAllele has recently been used to help exonerate some falsely accused defendants.

In today’s press release explaining its decision not to exonerate Houlihan, CAS stated that she had “had failed, on the balance of probability, to establish the source of the prohibited substance.”

Along the way, she mastered DNA evidence and exonerated 12 men.

In a fish-out-of-water tale, Bill takes up a mission to exonerate her, while navigating a new life in a foreign country.

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So desperate was Carlson to exonerate the system of Floyd’s death that he claimed that Floyd had died of a drug overdose.

The central political question is this: Can everything change back if the feds exonerate him?

Those books might seek to exonerate, but duBois wants to explain.

Is a top House Republican covering up information that would exonerate the White House from involvement in the IRS scandals?

A new report appears to exonerate Susan Rice for public statements following the Benghazi attack.

“The Democrat Party will always be here to oppose any attempt” to exonerate Thaksin, he said on national TV.

I dont think it would exonerate him either with them or with legal functionaries of a higher grade.

Surely, said Rose, the poor childs story faithfully repeated to these men will be sufficient to exonerate him.

And yet, as I look backward on that one bit of smuggling of which I was guilty, so far as motive was involved, I exonerate myself.

As to the people on board the vessel, I exonerated them then, and I exonerate them now, from all blame.

She had not known how to exonerate herself without hurting their feelings, or—telling a lie.

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On this page you'll find 62 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to exonerate, such as: absolve, acquit, discharge, dismiss, exempt, and justify.

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

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