Examples of deniability in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Chinese embassies and consulates overseas helped them while maintaining deniability. — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 23 July 2021 Such accounts are often a way of making clear exactly what happened -- with a thin veneer of deniability for non-partisan military officers. — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 15 July 2021 But Devi’s dual romances do not exist in the gray area of plausible deniability. — Abby Govindan, Vulture, 15 July 2021 Elizabeth is keeping her secret not only from her father, but also her mother, so her mom can have plausible deniability. — New York Times, 26 June 2021 For years, the Proud Boys operated in full view — selling merchandise on sites including Etsy and Amazon, being quoted in mainstream news publications, and spreading hate on social media — under the guise of semi-plausible deniability. — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2021 The fact that the attacks are blamed on private firms gives Putin a veneer of deniability. — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 June 2021 And those gangs give those governments the shield of plausible deniability. — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 19 May 2021 The botched nerve-agent attack, since exposed, was supposed to have been accomplished with deniability. — Kenneth Roth, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021

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