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We're willing to consider extenuating circumstances," the officer said.† (source)
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GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER We routinely disqualify testimony that would plead for extenuation.† (source)
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There were extenuating circumstances in their case—they were married, they had a child.† (source)
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When there are extenuating circumstances.† (source)
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"O.C. Bible: "Any sin can be ascribed, at least in part, to a natural bad tendency that is an extenuating circumstance acceptable to God."† (source)
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He knows there are, well, extenuating circumstances.† (source)
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There were extenuating circumstances ...or were they aggravating?† (source)
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Having declined to testify, do you have any statement to make in mitigation or extenuation?† (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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And before a court less arbitrary and more merciful than a martial one, that plea would largely extenuate.† (source)
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—it is not fit for such as we to sit with the rulers of the land," said the Jew; whose ambition for precedence though it had led him to dispute Place with the extenuated and impoverished descendant of the line of Montdidier, by no means stimulated him to an intrusion upon the privileges of the wealthy Saxons.† (source)
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Endnote 30: The writer—ever jealous for the honour of women—extenuates Clytemnestra's guilt as far as possible, and explains it as due to her having been left unprotected, and fallen into the hands of a wicked man.† (source)
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I try to explain the extenuations of the thing.† (source)
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My Extenuating Circumstances save the day.† (source)
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I wage a wild and senseless fight, I want to get out of the hollow and yet slide back into it again; I say "You must, it is your comrades, it is not an idiotic command," and again: "What does it matter to me, I have only one life to lose—" That is the result of all this leave, I plead in extenuation.† (source)
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This makes English people of fashion think well of him, as of a young fellow who is manly enough to confess to an obvious disadvantage without any attempt to conceal or extenuate it.† (source)
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How busy his thoughts were, as he walked home, in devising pitying excuses for her folly, in referring all her weakness to the sweet lovingness of her nature, in blaming Arthur, with less and less inclination to admit that his conduct might be extenuated too!† (source)
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