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to free from a charge of wrongdoing
no amount of remorse will absolve shoplifters who are caught, and all cases will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law
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Recent Examples of absolved
Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2025
Yet this compromise absolved slavery’s defenders of any obligation to concede ground, and placed the onus squarely on slavery’s critics to accommodate their demands.
—Time, 17 Nov. 2025
Ohtani was quickly absolved of any wrongdoing, but there remains no news on the Guardians pitchers three months later.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
The book would remain out of print for the duration of an eight-year legal battle that ultimately saw Matthiessen and his publisher, Viking, absolved.
—Maggie Doherty, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
In response, Clarkson burst into laughter and threw her hands in the air, as if she were absolved of her grief.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
Adani's flagship Adani Enterprises jumped over 4% after India's market watchdog absolved Adani Group and its founder Gautam Adani of certain misconduct allegations made by Hindenburg Research.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
The manhunt identified an initial suspect as George Zinn, but he was just charged with obstruction and absolved of any responsibility in the shooting.
—Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
Mahomes isn’t absolved from that.
—Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
Veiel, conducting a forensic examination of Riefenstahl’s archives and other sources, picks apart the myth the filmmaker propagated after World War II that absolved herself of any complicity in Nazi atrocities.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2025
Yet this compromise absolved slavery’s defenders of any obligation to concede ground, and placed the onus squarely on slavery’s critics to accommodate their demands.
—Time, 17 Nov. 2025
Ohtani was quickly absolved of any wrongdoing, but there remains no news on the Guardians pitchers three months later.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
The book would remain out of print for the duration of an eight-year legal battle that ultimately saw Matthiessen and his publisher, Viking, absolved.
—Maggie Doherty, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
In response, Clarkson burst into laughter and threw her hands in the air, as if she were absolved of her grief.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
Adani's flagship Adani Enterprises jumped over 4% after India's market watchdog absolved Adani Group and its founder Gautam Adani of certain misconduct allegations made by Hindenburg Research.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
The manhunt identified an initial suspect as George Zinn, but he was just charged with obstruction and absolved of any responsibility in the shooting.
—Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
Mahomes isn’t absolved from that.
—Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for absolved
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Her seat was initially filed by the appointment of Melinda De La Vega in 2024 as an interim council member, but in the November 2025 elections De La Vega instead ran for a different seat under the expectation that Pacheco might be acquitted.—
Verónica Egui Brito,
Miami Herald,
13 Jan. 2026
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Manly-Williams was a star witness against ex-Antioch K9 officer Morteza Amiri, who was convicted of siccing his dog on a man without cause, but acquitted of conspiracy and civil rights charges.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
13 Jan. 2026
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What counts as a cleared sidewalk?—
Quinn Clark,
jsonline.com,
1 Dec. 2025
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There are post-release government resources for people exiting prison, but none tailored to the extraordinary circumstances of the exonerated — wronged by the legal system, in many cases over decades, and then suddenly put on the street with no preparation or plan for facing the outside world.—
Olivia Olander,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Jan. 2026
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The civil rights counts against Buck Aldridge are not related to the fatal shooting of the exonerated man, Leonard Cure, whom Aldridge killed during a struggle after a traffic stop in 2023.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC news,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Absolved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/absolved. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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