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alibi

[al-uh-bahy] / ˈæl əˌbaɪ /


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Sept. 4 tells us whether that is analysis or alibi.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Lane’s alibi hinged on whether anyone had seen the sisters alive after his return to rehab.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

But he was released on the basis of his alibi.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

The governor has denied any knowledge of the plot and has an alibi that he was traveling to Los Angeles that day.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026

There was no way I could forget about Marcus’s alibi witness, especially now that I had her name.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks

Kierans described the case as "very challenging" due to the "destruction of evidence and provision of false alibis".

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

Other potential suspects had alibis of their own.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

Baker’s housemates, Duncan Martinez and Nathan Blalock, both military veterans in their early 20s, had been the last known people to see him alive, and served as each other’s alibis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025

Both Hall’s wife, scion of a prominent and wealthy New Jersey family, and Mills’s working-class husband appeared to have solid alibis.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022

The police reported on Salim’s friends’ alibis the day he disappeared.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

Williams excoriated feminist leaders who excused Bill and alibied for him.

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2017

When Berlin was bombed, Germans alibied that the R.A.F.:

From Time Magazine Archive

The subsequent aggression of Bolivia against Paraguay was sonorously alibied, last week, by Bolivian delegate Diez de Medina, addressing the Conference in Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

James E. Barrett alibied: "There was a hole in the wall and I just fell through."

From Time Magazine Archive

He had recalled Sim Colby’s black ones while thinking of unusual eyes in general and had, in passing, set him down as one who stood alibied.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford

By now Detroit was through alibiing for '58.

From Time Magazine Archive

The combination of televised second-guessing, N.F.L. stonewalling and coaches complaining, perhaps alibiing, has brought the striped-shirt arbiters a notoriety they would just as soon had passed them by.

From Time Magazine Archive




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