extenuate
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Nothing can extenuate the horror of acts he spent his adult life trying to avoid.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2022
In my initial salvo, I pointed out that Yglesias had minimized the harm of copyright infringement with a rationale that could extenuate theft of any kind.
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2012
Exceptionalism can be a dangerous faith because of how much it can extenuate and excuse.
From Time • Feb. 4, 2010
Seemingly the rash students were bent upon egging Prime Minister Velja Vukitchevitch of Jugoslavia into a suicidal war with Italy; but circumstances were not lacking to extenuate their folly.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The world hath taught me much: I can understand; I can extenuate greater errors—I have done so; believe me, it is only for thy sake—" "But canst thou wholly acquit me—wholly justify me, Marsyas?"
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth
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