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The seizure supposedly vitiated his argument for ownership, which was: If the cash is not my money, whose is it?

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2022

But Mr. Starmer’s offensive was vitiated somewhat by his own lockdown-related woes.

From New York Times • May 25, 2022

“In such a vitiated atmosphere, it’s impossible for me to see Dil Bechara in isolation and gauge it on its own merits,” she wrote in the Film Companion, an online movie magazine.

From Washington Times • Jul. 25, 2020

The prosecution's case was that the woman's consent was vitiated by Lawrance's deception.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2020

The belief that sacraments were vitiated in sinful hands gave rise to considerable anxiety, and to guard against it the Consolamentum was generally repeated a second and a third time.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles