How to Use deniability in a Sentence

deniability

noun

• Cissy’s confession gives him some deniability, so that he’s not put in jail for that.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Apr. 2023
• The fact that the attacks are blamed on private firms gives Putin a veneer of deniability.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 June 2021
• The strategy allows for deniability on the part of labs, who sell the peptides to the clinics at cost.
  — Lindsay Gellman, Longreads, 22 Mar. 2018
• The way the item looks, there's still some plausible deniability.
  — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2021
• But Western experts say this deniability is part of the point.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
• But at least then there was a veneer of plausible deniability.
  — Erika D. Smith Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2020
• Putin will probably get away with deniability on sports doping, even though nobody with a brain believes it.
  — Mercury News Editorial Board, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2017
• This was less of a purge than an attempt to maintain plausible deniability.
  — Timothy Shenk, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2022
• Any big shot with half a brain knows the importance of plausible deniability.
  — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 20 Apr. 2018
• Maybe his advisers cooked something up but kept him out of the loop for plausible deniability.
  — Matt Ford, New Republic, 24 Jan. 2018
• Which is to say, that project did not exactly fly under the radar of plausible deniability.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
• State sponsors and other clients prize hackers for their anonymity, deniability, and their stealth.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2019
• Hillary Clinton is a sharp politician who knows the fine art of plausible deniability.
  — Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 4 Nov. 2017
• On the one hand, there’s plenty of plausible deniability around each of the statements from Eilish that fans are up in arms about.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 1 June 2024
• The botched nerve-agent attack, since exposed, was supposed to have been accomplished with deniability.
  — Kenneth Roth, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
• To maintain plausible deniability, this time, Price is being left in the dark.
  — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 17 Jan. 2017
• And those gangs give those governments the shield of plausible deniability.
  — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 19 May 2021
• But the game was full of moments that created a level of plausible deniability.
  — oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2022
• And if the message is delivered by the personal lawyer, then the president's got some deniability there.
  — NBC News, 21 Nov. 2019
• So both sides had deniability, Colthurst acted as the middleman.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
• And if Iran wanted to kill Americans, any of those groups could do that on its behalf, with some deniability, said the experts.
  — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 21 June 2019
• By shuffling money from one group to another until one of them finally spends it, candidates and donors alike have deniability for how it is used.
  — Rachel Shorey, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• This provides a measure of plausible deniability for actions that the Kremlin does not want to be linked to publicly.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 1 June 2017
• But she, too, is bedevilled by the challenge of producing absolute proof in a world of shadowy deniability.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022
• These lists also provide a nice buffer of plausible deniability for those in the field of inventions and future thinking.
  — WIRED, 10 Mar. 2023
• Well yeah, but that sort of thing can also be the hallmark of foreign regime change, as has been the case time and again around the world, usually with a straight face and plausible deniability.
  — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2026
• There is plausible deniability here because celebrating looks a lot like crowd work at this level, but the question does need asking.
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 9 June 2026
• Plausible deniability, in the hands of skilled producers, can be spun into TV gold.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2025
• This lack of day-to-day oversight allows Starfleet to preserve the illusion of plausible deniability.
  — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 24 Jan. 2025
• Huawei hid its connection to Skycom, using it as a cutout to do business in Iran with plausible deniability.
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 23 Mar. 2021