vindicate

Instead of feeling vindicated, though, Cher felt overwhelmed by doing the show alone.

For Trump, this mythical fraud serves to vindicate his self-image as a defender of American democracy, who’s sometimes forced to ask election officials to find him several thousand votes.

But marriage equality in California was never vindicated on its merits, just on a technicality.

Yet they may feel vindicated even if Trump loses narrowly to Harris but his acolytes erupt in litigious, violent and protracted fashion.

“On the one hand, I feel vindicated,” the young reporter — just 33 — told me as we drank coffee, the strap on his digital watch half torn.