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Six example sentences with extenuate, each labelled with its topic.
Nothing the defense offered could extenuate a decade of falsified invoices, and the sentence reflected every one of them.
Law
Studies show juries extenuate a defendant's actions once they hear about sleepless nights and a sudden bereavement.
Psychology
The chief executive tried to extenuate the missed deadline by listing supplier failures, but the board had heard it before.
Business
The minister tried to extenuate the leak by blaming an intern, but the opposition wanted to know who had approved it.
Politics
The coach would not extenuate the technical foul, saying a bad call never excuses throwing the ball into the stands.
Basketball
Aristotle argued that ignorance of the facts can extenuate a wrong act, though ignorance of the law cannot.
Philosophy
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