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“Prince is painfully removed from the youth culture in which he’s participating, which only extenuates the project’s problems,” it stated.

From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2015

It extenuates some things, maybe; but it sets down naught in malice.

From History of Kershaw's Brigade by Dickert, D. Augustus

It does not exactly prevent sin; it extenuates instead the painful consequences.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Stevenson, Robert Louis

This act of disobedience differs from the others in one particular which, in the opinion of your Committee, rather aggravates than extenuates the offence.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

He then discusses the bearing of ignorance and error, vincible and invincible, and specially the case wherein an erroneous conscience extenuates.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander