How to Use exonerate in a Sentence

exonerate

verb
Definition of exoneratenext
Synonyms for exoneratenext
  • 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
  • In 2002, the five men were exonerated of the crime when DNA linked another person to the attack.
    — Jaden Amos, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
  • But the grounds on which he will surely be exonerated are also not in doubt.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 30 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Even if the numbers change and the House votes to impeach, Mr Trump will probably be exonerated in the Senate.
    — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Dunn is the sixth person to be exonerated in Elkhart after spending years, even decades, in prison.
    — Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 29 July 2024
  • 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
  • She was exonerated in time to compete in the Tokyo Olympics the following summer.
    — Barry Svrluga, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • 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
  • One of them was the 1963 shooting and killing of a young Black woman, Cynthia Scott, by a Detroit cop who later was exonerated for his act.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2024
  • 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
  • Hardin and Clark, who were exonerated in 2017 of a murder Handy falsely linked to satanism, also have filed lawsuits against the city.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Mueller said Trump could not be exonerated on obstruction of justice and left it to Congress to decide what to do.
    — Zeke Miller, The Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Twenty years since her conviction, Jimenez has now been exonerated and the charges against her have been dismissed.
    — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Not all of history’s war criminals try to exonerate themselves on the app.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • But the five were exonerated and their convictions tossed out in 2002, when DNA evidence was matched to a different man who confessed to the assaults.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024

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