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verb

exonerate

to absolve someone from blame for a fault or wrongdoing

In a sentence

Six example sentences with exonerate, each labelled with its topic.

  • New timestamps from the parking garage camera exonerated the driver, and the charges were withdrawn before the trial began.

    Law

  • A commission finally exonerated the engineer in 1974, forty years after the bridge collapse had ended a promising career.

    History

  • The audit exonerated the on-call engineer, showing that a vendor's expired certificate, not the deploy, had taken the site down.

    Technology

  • The replay exonerated the defender, showing that the shooter had kicked out his leg to draw the contact.

    Basketball

  • The inquiry exonerated the minister of leaking the memo, and the staffer who actually sent it resigned quietly.

    Politics

  • A retraction notice exonerated the junior author, who had flagged the flawed data months before publication.

    Science

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