exculpated
Example Sentences
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She is pointing to their flaws because she wants to be exculpated for having chosen to disbelieve all of them.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2021
However the public chose to remember her, the German government exculpated Mata Hari in 1930.
From Time ● Oct. 13, 2017
He was exculpated by DNA evidence and freed in 2009 after 31 years in prison for a rape he did not commit.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2016
The last trial was, in many ways, the most astonishing, because it came four years after new DNA evidence had exculpated Rivera.
From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2015
It is too dreadful altogether, but—another was exculpated by the date of the day he arrived at Windyhill.
From The Marriage of Elinor by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
