alibi
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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
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
But he got his first name wrong, and the person he actually accused turned out to have a firm alibi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The person in question had no alibi for the night of the murder and had failed two polygraph tests, according to police records.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
What if he lied about having an alibi, what if the police think he’s a suspect?
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Their mother, Easther McCook, 51, was sentenced to two years, suspended for three years, for perverting the course of justice by providing false alibis for her sons.
From BBC ● May 29, 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
That they had alibis for their whereabouts on the day that Malcolm was killed.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2021
The two always said they were innocent and offered alibis.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
Excuses, alibis, and wild cover-up stories chased each other around Harry’s brain, each more feeble than the last.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
Williams excoriated feminist leaders who excused Bill and alibied for him.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2017
Inc. Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson alibied his cancellation of a bridge match with the four Marx Brothers who play a fair game.
From Time Magazine Archive
He damned his critics, alibied himself, said that his grief and helplessness, bringing on another attack of tuberculosis, had brought him to the edge of the grave.
From Time Magazine Archive
James E. Barrett alibied: "There was a hole in the wall and I just fell through."
From Time Magazine Archive
"That was issued before my time," he alibied.
From The Cartels Jungle by Cox, Irving E.
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
By now Detroit was through alibiing for '58.
From Time Magazine Archive
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