exculpate
verb (used with object)
to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate.
exculpates
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present tense formof exculpate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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In response, Bauer attorney Shawn Holley wrote: “There is no public interest in shielding those who make materially misleading complaints from disclosure of information that exculpates the alleged perpetrator.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2022
I’m not certain how to articulate what was different in a way anyone would find remotely credible, but I’m certain that it was real, and that it exculpates me.
From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2019
In one passage, a “former partner” pointedly exculpates Bell: “When the Gupta project first arose, senior members of the Geopolitical team, including Bell, were quite outspoken that we should not do it.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 18, 2018
Saletan believes that a distinction between historical science and modern science is what exculpates the creationist:
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2014
I ought to have told you, long ago, of a circumstance that exculpates Mr. Wyllys from the charge of trifling, and renders the notice he bestows upon me altogether harmless and proper.
From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland
