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Even Ihsan’s parents’ statements exculpating Ameen were invalid; their only admissible testimony was what was written by Dhiya, which they insist is fraudulent.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 20, 2020

Meanwhile the summary punishment of plant operatives and midlevel functionaries, exculpating Soviet brass, ranks among its “final show trials,” Higginbotham writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2019

It ends with archive television news footage of voters largely exculpating him after the inquest in 1970.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2018

“It basically removed my chances of exculpating myself from everything she said about me,” he said.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2017

He really comes nearer to exculpating Pendennis or Ethel Newcome than any other author, who saw what he saw, would have been.

From The Victorian Age in Literature by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)