vindicate
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If that version is ever unearthed, it may perhaps vindicate the director.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
The worker just doesn’t get to vindicate their rights.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Over mint tea, Mr. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha speaks with the precision of a man who has watched history vindicate and betray his dynasty in equal measure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
In his first Madrid spell, he pushed for Luka Modric, Sami Khedira and Mesut Ozil, and history would vindicate all three choices.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
She expected me to vindicate her life for her, and the choices she’d made.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar added on X that the decision "vindicates Pakistan's consistent position that a binding international treaty cannot be unilaterally suspended or set aside".
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
To AI-safety experts, it vindicates what they have been warning about all along: that AI systems would cause real-world harms and evade attempts to control them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
These analysts will claim that the stock market’s huge rally to begin this week’s trading vindicates their beliefs.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026
This is a moment really that vindicates truth-telling.
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2025
A plain memorial brass on the walls of Rochester Cathedral vindicates the share which the ancient city and its neighbourhood will always have in his fame.
From Dickens English Men of Letters by Sir Adolphus William Ward
Seeing Austria’s umlauted signature grape poured for regulars in Eagles jerseys, I feel vindicated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The result also vindicated Van’s claim to the championship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Admirers cheered that the court had at last vindicated Andrew Johnson.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
Faculty complaints have amounted to nothing and the school is vindicated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
It was as if I had waited all this time for this moment and for the first light of this dawn to be vindicated.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
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So watching the rest of the world finally catch up feels a little vindicating.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
But the case was a close one with only five justices full-throatedly vindicating the Fourth Amendment’s privacy protection goals.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
Menisa Sesay said it showed the legal reforms for which they had fought so hard were finally being enforced, vindicating their mission to protect the rights of vulnerable women and girls.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Now, another war is vindicating Beijing’s decision to view this as a critical sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Thus vindicating those who bore influence in her formative years.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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