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excuses
noun as in reason, explanation
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- cop-out
- cover story
- coverup
- fish story
- song and dance
- why and wherefore
verb as in forgive, absolve; justify
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“After this theft of government funds, he repeatedly lied to the agents about the money and made excuses for why it was taking so long to receive the wire transfers for the full $200,000.”
Judge Lewis J. Liman ordered Giuliani to turn over assets after Giuliani blew an October 29 deadline, calling the former mayor's excuses for failing to turn them over "farcical."
But to pin the return of Trump so heavily on them excuses other guilty actors.
In fact, it made me long for excuses to do this not only in elections, and not with so pressing an agenda.
The club's hierarchy wanted to have continuity at a time of significant change, but have not seen the momentum and progress they wanted and sources stress there are no excuses for the current situation.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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