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vindicates
  • present tense form of vindicate (3rd person singular).

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These analysts will claim that the stock market’s huge rally to begin this week’s trading vindicates their beliefs.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

"When you see that bond, and just that love she had for the lambs, it vindicates the decision."

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

This is a moment really that vindicates truth-telling.

From Slate • Nov. 7, 2025

Both the police and Gascón’s chief of staff, Joseph Iniguez, claim the video vindicates their respective interpretations of events.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2024

Turgot vindicates the interests of workmen against protective duties, for whom no compensation is possible, where one industry gains by its being favored in the same way that it loses when another is favored.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm