vicarious

Example Sentences

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Many scholars question the fairness of vicarious liability in criminal cases, viewing it as an unwarranted exception to the general rule that criminal responsibility must be personal.

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2026

Johnson, squeezed into a wig so tight we get a vicarious headache, has pumped up his deltoids to nearly reach his prosthetic cauliflower ears.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

"There is this concept of vicarious trauma where people who are not directly exposed to a trauma but are indirectly exposed to it via looking at images etc, develop PSTD."

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2025

That vicarious thrill that audiences once gleaned from stories of the rich and powerful takes on different meanings in series about them today.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024

It was probably just peaceful despair and relief at final and complete abnegation, now that Judith was about to immolate the frustration’s vicarious recompense into the living fairy tale.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner