extenuation
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Committee chair Dianne Feinstein appears to offer some extenuation when she reminds us in the report's preamble of the shock and "pervasive fear" felt after 9/11.
From Chicago Tribune ● Dec. 11, 2014
Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein appears to offer some extenuation when she reminds us in the report’s preamble of the shock and “pervasive fear” felt after 9/11.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2014
Even then, some reporters' questions suggested that, if Weiner's conduct could be defined as an illness, some further extenuation might be available.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2013
Or, as used to be said in extenuation of strong leaders, “to make the trains run on time.”
From Washington Post
Instead of this, the criminal is punished more severely if the suspicion of habitual crime rests on him, and habit is made a valid reason against all extenuation.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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