Definitions
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- adjective freed from any question of guilt; having suspicion of guilt eliminated.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
exculpate .
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- adjective freed from any question of guilt
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Examples
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Police arrested the young girl's father, Kevin Fox, in the case; after eight months in jail, he was exculpated by DNA evidence.
Scathing Report Describes 'Major Mistakes' In Riley Fox Murder Investigation Will Guzzardi 2011
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Police arrested the young girl's father, Kevin Fox, in the case; after eight months in jail, he was exculpated by DNA evidence.
Scathing Report Describes 'Major Mistakes' In Riley Fox Murder Investigation Will Guzzardi 2011
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He is therefore exculpated on the grounds of ill motive, but not perhaps adherence to ethical form.
St. Warren Casts Not the First Stone Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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And why haven't banks, happily exculpated by the narrative, reminded us that they warned at the time that they were being forced to make foolish loans that would endanger their solvency?
Rep. Brad Miller: Republican Amnesia on the Financial Crisis Rep. Brad Miller 2011
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Justine; but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman, and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me.
Chapter 7 2010
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There is no mystery where the Occupy Wall Street movement came from: It is an offspring of the same false narrative about the causes of the financial crisis that exculpated the government and brought us the Dodd-Frank Act.
Wall Street's Gullible Occupiers Peter J. Wallison 2011
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Justine; but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman, and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me.
Chapter 8 2010
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It also exculpated Hamas from the war crime of using civilians as human shields.
Alan Dershowitz: How Goldstone Is Making Peace More Difficult 2010
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It also exculpated Hamas from the war crime of using civilians as human shields.
Alan Dershowitz: How Goldstone Is Making Peace More Difficult 2010
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On several occasions, Vespasiano underscores how the duke kept faith in the face of daunting opposition and recounts how he led nighttime raids on enemy fortifications. 139 Until recently, Montefeltro's reputation, bolstered by biographers and historians, had exculpated him on points for which condottieri were generally held in contempt.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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