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"The inquest has vindicated our concerns but has also deeply upset us," they said.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025

More than two decades later, the details of his case and the long and winding road the state has taken toward an execution has vindicated Breyer’s 2015 dissent in Glossip v.

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2022

Time has vindicated Harmon’s tenacity in realizing his creative vision, whatever the cost in alienating bewildered viewers.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2021

By the time we learn that Lippman taught them "to eat a piece of watermelon with a knife and a fork," the story has vindicated Updike's verdict.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2021

Genin, who appears to be as clever in writing as in making hats, has avowed himself a conservative, and in a long argument has vindicated the style of which he is so eminent a manufacturer.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various