How to Use vindication in a Sentence

vindication

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  • These last few weeks must feel like something of a vindication.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 3 Dec. 2020
  • It’s a vindication for a lot of people who have really suffered.
    — Lorraine Ali Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2020
  • But the White House was quick to hail the news as vindication of its efforts to fight the opioid crisis.
    — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2020
  • But those who are explicit about their partisan leanings said a blue Georgia was vindication after years of what-ifs and close calls.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • They were set to enjoy another massive vindication, while the media would once again be discredited.
    — Joseph Simonson, Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Yet in August, the Free Britney movement seemed to receive vindication.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Poliakine spoke with a Bloomberg reporter Thursday and slammed the short seller reports and said the demonstration will serve as vindication.
    — Claire Miller, Bloomberg.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • But the election was more than a vindication of persistence or even a partial rejection of the bilious, boodling, brain-dead regime of Donald J. Trump.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 7 Nov. 2020
  • This was self-satisfaction masquerading as vindication.
    — Alexander Clapp, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Yusef Salaam, one of the five, said the gate would serve as a form of vindication.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Foer’s book ends with the midterms, so it is imbued with a sense of vindication.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Willard Miller, 41, called the jury’s not guilty verdict on one count of child abuse a vindication.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 13 May 2022
  • The Abraham Accords with the Gulf Arabs are a vindication of that vision.
    — WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
  • First, there is the notion that the Nobel Prize equals vindication.
    — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2023
  • That the Supreme Court even agreed to consider the no-fly-list case is, in his mind, vindication, Albury says.
    — New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Some are describing it as vindication, showing that the school and its fans are not racist.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Darnold said there was no sense of vindication beating the team that traded him in the offseason.
    — Steve Reed, courant.com, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The vibrations rattling the place were of vindication, and the chaos at the buzzer was rare for Bryant-Denny Stadium.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 9 Oct. 2022
  • And so this week’s accolade at the World Whiskies Awards also serves as vindication for the fanbase.
    — Brad Japhe, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • For many Black leaders, Mr. Adams’s election is both a vindication and cause to wonder what might have been.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2021
  • Not quite a Disney villain cackle of glee, but more a smug, adrenalin rush of vindication.
    — Chloe Malle, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Taylor, through his attorney, seemed to treat Catron’s plea in the case as vindication.
    — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Georgetown came back in the second half and won by a single point, 50-49, but the game was seen as vindication for small schools and changed the nature of the NCAA tournament.
    — John Otis, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2022
  • For many Palestinians, the outpouring of support among the fans at the World Cup felt like vindication.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • De Silva’s son is still riding the high of vindication.
    — Bridget Read, Curbed, 21 Dec. 2023
  • This served as a massive vindication for a band that has never fit into the Latin mainstream.
    — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Given all this, Democrats would be wise to treat the 2022 elections not as a vindication but as a stay of execution.
    — Alexander Burns, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Viewed in this light, Trump’s run to return to the White House might be seen as his attempt at vindication after a narrow defeat in 2020.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 24 July 2023
  • The strong result is also a vindication for the band’s dealmakers, Independent Artist Group.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
  • China and Russia still see the Games much as the old Soviet Union did, as an extension of geopolitical competition; success in the sporting arena offers a broader kind of vindication.
    — Dawn Brancati, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2021

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