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Recent Examples of exculpatory
An officer at the Gaston County Police Department received an exculpatory statement — but never disclosed it, according to the suit.
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Ryan Oehrli
august 29, Charlotte Observer, 29 Aug. 2025
Other human factors contribute to wrongful imprisonment, and exculpatory DNA is not present in most cases.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
Bondi has not responded to emails from the Sentinel seeking comment or asking him to share the exculpatory material.
—Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2025
Levy did not find those messages exculpatory.
—Sammy Sussman, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
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Ryan Oehrli
august 29, Charlotte Observer, 29 Aug. 2025
Other human factors contribute to wrongful imprisonment, and exculpatory DNA is not present in most cases.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
Bondi has not responded to emails from the Sentinel seeking comment or asking him to share the exculpatory material.
—Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2025
Levy did not find those messages exculpatory.
—Sammy Sussman, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exculpatory
Adjective
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What to know about the family The FBI has been assisting Pima County investigators in the case, providing technical and analytical support, such as going through cell phone and cell tower data, conducting interviews and reviewing tips.—
Helen Rummel,
AZCentral.com,
3 Feb. 2026
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Yet those assumptions have not been tested through a new Traffic Impact and Access Study — the standard tool for evaluating projects of this scale — nor through a consistent analytical framework.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
31 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The instructional promise of each episode was a bit, a starting point for discursive, funny, intermittently personal mini-essays that always started in Wilson’s beloved New York, but could and did make their way anywhere.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2026
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Knowledge itself can be both logical and discursive.—
Bruce Schneier,
IEEE Spectrum,
21 Jan. 2026
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First the explanatory power from seeing the big picture once hidden.—
Emil Steiner,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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While the theory was meant to be explanatory, in the sense that observers used it to explain apparently irrational behavior, it has sometimes been used in a prescriptive way, as an approach consciously adopted by leaders.—
Andrew Latham,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
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This securitization expands presidential interpretive authority, concentrates discretion, and narrows space for dissent by framing disagreement as vulnerability.—
Alejandro Reyes,
Washington Post,
3 Feb. 2026
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The move comes after staff at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia removed interpretive panels about slavery from the President’s House historical site.—
Outside,
Outside,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Exculpatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exculpatory. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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