How to Use vindication in a Sentence

vindication

noun
  • Those who kept going through the thinnest of times will feel vindication now.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
  • These last few weeks must feel like something of a vindication.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 3 Dec. 2020
  • At the end of the third, though, Rizzi earned vindication.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Yusef Salaam, one of the five, said the gate would serve as a form of vindication.
    Justin Klawans, The Week, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Trolls emerged en masse seeking some kind of strange vindication.
    Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 7 July 2020
  • So there was a certain amount of vindication, yes.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Yeah, vindication feels good, although not in this case.
    Joel Feder, The Drive, 3 June 2026
  • 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
  • Sounds like a vindication of the bedtime resisters, at least in part.
    Cari Romm, The Cut, 18 July 2017
  • Burkhart felt a sense of triumph—and even vindication—at the results.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But the Yankees' sense of vindication may be short-lived.
    MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But, today was not a day for verdicts or vindication.
    Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 29 Apr. 2026
  • This was vindication for his patient work.
    Devin Bradshaw, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • This could be his best shot at a national title — and at long last, vindication.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 16 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • The film also gives some vindication to Ono.
    Whitney Friedlander, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025
  • And her family can feel some sense of vindication.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
  • For someone who nearly walked away from all of it, the schedule ahead looks like vindication.
    Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Yet vindication in the courts did not mean access to the nation’s airwaves.
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
  • For other board members, the last 19 months have been a time of vindication.
    Marlene Sokol, Tampa Bay Times, 20 Feb. 2017
  • Darnold said there was no sense of vindication beating the team that traded him in the offseason.
    Steve Reed, courant.com, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Rudnev’s actions speak of a man looking for peace, rather than vindication.
    William Jones, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Many of his accusers see the charges as a form of vindication -- no matter the trial's outcome.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 3 June 2017
  • But the real vindication is that people keep buying it.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Not quite a Disney villain cackle of glee, but more a smug, adrenalin rush of vindication.
    Chloe Malle, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Trump paying this judgement is in some small way a vindication of those ideals; then there will be more consequences to come.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 10 July 2026
  • Well, setting aside the film, does this return feel like a vindication, like the world has finally caught up with you?
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Taylor, through his attorney, seemed to treat Catron’s plea in the case as vindication.
    Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
  • At this point, a settlement would look less like vindication than damage control.
    Jon Duffy, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
  • This served as a massive vindication for a band that has never fit into the Latin mainstream.
    Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2021

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