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“Nothing is possible without allies and partners,” he said, with what sounded like a hint of self-vindication and perhaps a warning about the future.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2018

The responses ranged from remorse to self-vindication, with lots of tortured doubt and defensiveness in between.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2011

But this was to be Senator Heflin's speech of self-vindication, the retribution of a monomaniac.

From Time Magazine Archive

The notes are his recollections of 70-odd years�his memoirs, his convictions and his self-vindication.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was humiliated, she was indignant, she was abashed; she wanted to break forth with a tempest of denial, self-vindication, resentment; she wanted to cry with her face hidden in her hands.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice