compurgations

noun

plural of compurgation
as in exculpations

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  1. acquittals
  2. exonerations
  3. remissions
  4. pardons
Noun
  • According to Ghaemi, the IRGC’s intelligence agency has consolidated control over interrogations, detention centers, judges, and prosecutors, and the proof is in the lack of acquittals.
    — Laura Secor, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026
  • However, many cases where charges were brought against activists have been dismissed or resulted in acquittals.
    — Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 10 June 2026
Definition of acquittals
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  • The mounting number of death row exonerations — more than 200 since the early 1970s — has made the risk of executing an innocent person impossible to ignore.
    — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
  • The law isn’t perfect, raising several barriers to testing, but still, DNA evidence has featured in 17 of Florida’s 30 death row exonerations.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
Definition of exonerations
Noun
  • By simultaneously hitting three or more targets, these agents promise not only deeper responses but potentially longer remissions in some of the hardest-to-treat cancers.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Definition of remissions
Noun
  • Jimmy Kimmel's hunch helps with final question The last question posed the biggest challenge for Ding, but thankfully Kimmel had an inkling about turkeys that hadn’t received presidential pardons.
    — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 30 July 2026
  • Trump commuted their prison sentences, but they were not covered by the president’s mass pardons.
    — Michael Kunzelman, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
Definition of pardons
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