How to Use exonerate in a Sentence

exonerate

verb
Definition of exoneratenext
Synonyms for exoneratenext
  • The courts eventually dismissed the case and exonerated her.
    — Bloomberg.com, 7 Apr. 2020
  • But board members said the cameras could exonerate teachers falsely accused of mistreating students.
    — Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2020
  • But Mueller said his investigation did not exonerate Trump.
    — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 3 June 2020
  • Two years later, Gao was formally exonerated and was able to leave his exile in northwestern China.
    — Ian Johnson, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
  • And his aides insist the media already litigated it and exonerated the former vice president, which is not entirely true.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Courts like finality, and even strong evidence of innocence usually won’t win a prisoner a new trial, much less exonerate him.
    — Barbara Bradley Hagerty, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Then the prosecutors plan to file a further motion to completely exonerate DuBoise.
    — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2020
  • As a judge is expected to soon set a date for Lori Loughlin's trial, her attorney is claiming she's been exonerated by new evidence.
    — TheWeek, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Stormer says police tried to argue later that Salcido’s cause of death was due to excited delirium in an effort to exonerate officers.
    — Katie Wedell and Cara Kelly, USA TODAY, 14 June 2020
  • But definitively exonerating a comet for killing off the dinosaurs may require a space mission to collect samples from one, Fischer-Gödde says.
    — Byadam Mann, science.org, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Responding to national crises with splashy announcements will not fix the systemic issues of racial inequity, nor exonerate corporate America from its part in it.
    — Kim Cordova, The Denver Post, 23 June 2020
  • The department released the footage of the shooting that seemed to exonerate Piper within a few hours.
    — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 2 July 2021
  • In that complaint, the board voted 2-1 to exonerate Baller.
    — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2021
  • But that evening, Mr. Zeldin sounded all but ready to exonerate him.
    — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Trump wrote on Truth Social after the news broke, although the delay doesn't exonerate him in the case.
    — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
  • He was not exonerated on assigning blame for the brawling to both to neo-Nazis and those protesting the neo-Nazis.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
  • But even that came out 23 years after the crime and 10 years after they were exonerated.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 23 June 2024
  • The film then turns into a story about a father racing to exonerate his child.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 30 July 2021
  • Why did Johnson slip through the cracks in both historic and modern efforts to exonerate victims of the trials?
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022
  • But Mueller himself did not exonerate Trump, as Pence seemed to suggest.
    — Author: Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, Meg Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2020
  • But this cannot stand in the way of learning about Garvey’s true history and exonerating him.
    — Justin Hansford, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • And Robert Kennedy was determined to exonerate his cousin.
    — CBS News, 6 Nov. 2021
  • The fact that he was found guilty does not exonerate all the other past, present and future acts of police brutality.
    — Keith Magee, CNN, 24 May 2021
  • His method quickly finds its way into the courts, where it is used to exonerate people wrongly accused of crimes and to finger the true culprits.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2022
  • But the Florida Supreme Court ruled those results were not enough to exonerate Zeigler.
    — Jeff Weiner, orlandosentinel.com, 21 July 2021
  • At the 12-year mark of his prison sentence, Williams reached out to the Innocence Project with a request for the organization to exonerate him.
    — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Abe was very clear that much of his effort was to exonerate the name of his grandfather, who had been labelled a class-A war criminal.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2022
  • The lab’s assessments have also been used to help exonerate people who have been wrongly accused of a crime.
    — David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The special counsel's probe did not exonerate Mr. Trump on his taxes.
    — CBS News, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The quintet was exonerated and released from prison in 2002.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024

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