vindicate
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Holmes and Evans welcomed the cameras, hoping they would help vindicate her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
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
“The sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up ‘behind bars.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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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While the footage vindicates the VAR's decision, it may not end the arguments about the decision to rule out the goal.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
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
It is a curious fact, never yet quite explained, that an author’s favorite work is rarely that whose popular success best vindicates his confidence.
From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Three times in the past decade the Supreme Court has vindicated religious schools excluded from state programs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Algorithms learn what makes us angry, afraid or vindicated, then serve us more of it.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 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
They were vindicated; the program was correct, events were progressing in their predetermined direction, history was on their side, and Harlem loved them.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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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
And you know, there are fewer things in life more vindicating than a guy dumping you and then crawling right back.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 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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