Sample Sentences for
vindicate
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    ...he looks up at the sky with that expression of dumb and brooding outrage and yet of vindication, as though he had expected no less;  (source)
    vindication = having been proved right
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    A moral vindication was regarded by the youth as a very important thing.  (source)
    vindication = to be shown to be right or justified in taking prior action
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    She expected me to vindicate her life for her, and the choices she'd made.†  (source)
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    But vindication has no power over guilt.†  (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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    When Peter stiffens, I am ashamed to say that I feel a little bit vindicated.†  (source)
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    You must stop imagining that posterity will vindicate you, Winston.†  (source)
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    "I am not like him!" he yelled helplessly, vindicating himself to any who would listen.†  (source)
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    What vindication, to think I might leave this mark.†  (source)
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    It'll make a bunch of people feel vindicated, but it won't fix anything.†  (source)
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    Then why—since the choice was with himself—should the individual, whose connection with the fallen woman had been the most intimate and sacred of them all, come forward to vindicate his claim to an inheritance so little desirable?†  (source)
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    On page 3 she writes: "I truthfully feel none of us has anyone to blame etc." Thus vindicating those who bore influence in her formative years.†  (source)
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    It was support and vindication; it was sustenance and sum.†  (source)
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    He boasted that the reversal had vindicated him completely.†  (source)
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