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as in exonerated
to free from a charge of wrongdoing
acquitted of the robbery charge after proving he was nowhere near the scene of the crime
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to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way
the king promised handsome rewards to all who acquitted themselves well in the battle
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Recent Examples of acquitted
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
The officer in that case was acquitted of criminal charges and found justified in his use of force by a review board.
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Travis Loller,
Arkansas Online,
20 June 2026
Last year, both Karen Read, acquitted of killing her Boston cop boyfriend in June, and Sherri Papini, who served time for masterminding her own 2016 kidnapping in California, participated in documentaries about their cases.
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Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
18 June 2026
The officer in that case was acquitted of criminal charges and found justified in his use of force by a review board.
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Travis Loller,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
Judge Doolin has handled some of the post-trial proceedings involving Karen Read, who last year was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in connection with the death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe.
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Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
17 June 2026
Sean McGuire was acquitted on Friday in the November 2019 strangulation killing of Betty McGuire.
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Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 June 2026
She was acquitted of concealing an individual to prevent arrest, a misdemeanor.
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ABC News,
16 June 2026
He was acquitted of the more serious charges but convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
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Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2026
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Spilotro also went on trial for the M&M murders in 1983, 21 years after the fact, and was acquitted on the grounds that the prosecution's key witness, the aforementioned Cullotta, wasn't credible, according to a contemporary New York Times report.
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Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
The officer in that case was acquitted of criminal charges and found justified in his use of force by a review board.
—
Travis Loller,
Arkansas Online,
20 June 2026
Last year, both Karen Read, acquitted of killing her Boston cop boyfriend in June, and Sherri Papini, who served time for masterminding her own 2016 kidnapping in California, participated in documentaries about their cases.
—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
18 June 2026
The officer in that case was acquitted of criminal charges and found justified in his use of force by a review board.
—
Travis Loller,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
Judge Doolin has handled some of the post-trial proceedings involving Karen Read, who last year was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in connection with the death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe.
—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
17 June 2026
Sean McGuire was acquitted on Friday in the November 2019 strangulation killing of Betty McGuire.
—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 June 2026
She was acquitted of concealing an individual to prevent arrest, a misdemeanor.
—
ABC News,
16 June 2026
He was acquitted of the more serious charges but convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for acquitted
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Not all pads are alike, but a footprint on the larger side involves five to ten acres of cleared, packed ground that serves as the hub for drilling equipment, which can include wellheads, pump jacks, tanks, wastewater storage pits, trailers, and flare stacks.
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What counts as a cleared sidewalk?
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Drake’s team usually scrounged up the clues that later exonerated Mason’s clients.
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Levine said internet protocol records, which include the geographic location of an internet user, would have exonerated him.
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Once the cooling is done, the research team will evaluate how the fuel materials behaved under prolonged irradiation.
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Provenance explains what was allowed to occur, under what conditions and whether the system behaved as expected.
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Keith is absolved of any wrongdoing in the episode and is allowed to keep being a cop.
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The incident was under review, but previous reviews have almost invariably absolved Israeli troops of blame.
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Many have carried the Indian flag and brought copies of the constitution to the demonstration.
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The only real scoring chances arrived in the dying moments of a game that carried macabre tendencies, long after the match had devolved into a turf war.
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Wilson lost the fight over state equality in the Senate, but more than a century later, he would be vindicated on the issue of direct congressional elections with the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment.
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And yes, despite having a chance at Sergei Bobrovsky at the trade deadline — the original asking price was a first-round pick, which Carolina would have never paid — Tulsky was vindicated in the end.
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No homes had been lost, and Utah Fire Info, a multiagency operation, said in a post on X that firefighters conducted a successful back-burn operation to protect the town.
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Defense attorney Michael Burt had argued a video deposition prosecutors conducted with a key witness is hearsay evidence and should not be admissible, as the witness could not be subject to cross-examination.
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Theater artists who have come of age in this period have been released from the burden of having to conform to notions of regional theater respectability.
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Just as high school and college graduates hit the job market this summer, a research initiative has released a pair of Top 10 lists that rank the best employers for new grads seeking first jobs.
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