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"An external source of ignition or extreme weather does not necessarily absolve a company of civil liability," said Hawari.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

He assumes that, these days, the public goes to see movies or plays, watches television, or reads books either to avoid this dismal reality or absolve themselves from it.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

“Regardless of how competent or negligent L.A. Fire was in responding, it does not absolve his guilt in starting the initial fire,” Essayli told KFI on Friday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Platner, 41, was already asking voters to absolve him of all prior actions up to five years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

I wait for him to absolve me of not remembering a mother who birthed me, a grandmother who saved me, friends who rebelled with me, and a suffocating fear I can’t name.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

Your mother-in-law knows her son better than anyone, I assume, and giving this money to him absolves her of two things.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

A fractious national legislature absolves anyone of the responsibility of trying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Martinique official Serge Letchimy hailed a vote that he said had come "to shatter a system that tramples on the truth, absolves the guilty, and scorns the victims".

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

"An order that absolves a man of such a crime, to say it's not a crime, is the darkest hour in our legal system," she told the BBC.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025

Saying kaddish and sitting shiva, that absolves them of any responsibility for you.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

Can you imagine Magnum PI’s Tom Selleck or Burt Reynolds absolved of body hair?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

For Kevin Farmer, executive secretary of the Codrington Trust in Barbados, the argument that the Church absolved itself by eventually supporting abolition is deeply flawed.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

This narrative absolved leaders of responsibility and stripped communities of agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

Scientific research has absolved vaccines as a cause.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

Guenever cried: “But if you really were absolved this time!”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

As you suggested, this is often referred to as an “act of God” — absolving Adam of any negligence/responsibility.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

But that may have been the actor’s way of absolving himself of his monstrous off-screen behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

But he feared a ban would easily be overcome by tech-savvy teens, at the same time absolving parents of responsibility.

From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026

At a press conference on Friday, the court said it was not absolving Duterte of the charges she faces.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025

I walk away from her, guilt on my hands, absolving myself: I’m a good person.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood