exculpatein a sentence
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She thinks the evidence will exculpate her client.exculpate = clear of guilt or blame
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This is the matter, gentlemen; answer and exculpate yourselves, for I stand here to accuse you.† (source)
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Mr Verloc tried to exculpate himself huskily.† (source)
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He did not, however, endeavour to exculpate himself; but took a method which almost equally confounded me.† (source)
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It is my sincere hope that this book does not come across as self-congratulatory or self-exculpatory. (source)exculpatory = clearing of guilt or blame
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These police put Walter on death row while he was a pretrial detainee; I feared that they would not scrupulously follow the legal requirement to turn over all exculpatory evidence that could help him prove his innocence.† (source)
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He's investigating something new on the case'possibly something exculpatory.'† (source)exculpatory = clearing of guilt or blame
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"I fail to see what that has to do with this triar "It may exculpate Mr. Dillard's client," Baker said.† (source)
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The long afternoons she spent browsing through dictionary and thesaurus made for constructions that were inept, but hauntingly so: the coins a villain concealed in his pocket were "esoteric," a hoodlum caught stealing a car wept in "shameless auto-exculpation," the heroine on her thoroughbred stallion made a "cursory" journey through the night, the king's furrowed brow was the "hieroglyph" of his displeasure.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine, but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me.† (source)exculpated = cleared of guilt or blame
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The quickest way to provoke that state was to permit no contact, no discussion, no exculpating explanations aimed at enlisting the subject to get the offender off the hook.† (source)exculpating = clearing of guilt or blame
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He would have to make the best of this terrible situation—make the best of this plan that had ended so strangely and somewhat exculpatorily for him.† (source)
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Tess's voice throughout had hardly risen higher than its opening tone; there had been no exculpatory phrase of any kind, and she had not wept.† (source)
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He took Withers, the trader, into his confidence, and they planned a story, which Withers was to carry to Stonebridge, that would exculpate Fay and Shefford of anything more serious than flight.† (source)
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not explaining, asking for no exculpation: just told Grandfather how he had put his first wife aside like eleventh and twelfth century kings did: 'I found that she was not and could never be, through no fault of her own, adjunctive or incremental to the design which I had in mind, so I provided for her and put her aside.'† (source)
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The only exculpatory aspect of my crimes is that I was caught and so many others were not and are not.† (source)
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