extenuates

present tense third-person singular of extenuate

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Verb
  • This year's installer icon is one of the ones that finally justifies years' worth of effort spent tracking and talking about the changes in macOS installer icons.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Throughout, in interviews with Costa, Malafaia justifies his political aspiration with Biblical parables.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When Glenna excuses herself to go check on Lady Ellen, Julia thanks the woman and then proceeds to sneakily follow her straight up to Ellen’s quarters.
    Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In the sketch, Bargatze plays George Washington and explains the confusing nature of modern-day America.
    Rosa Escandon, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Whereas previous metal pollution records extracted their silt, or evidence from areas far from their sources— upland peat cores or mountain and polar glaciers, Cambridge specifies –the most recent data comes from the epicenter of production, a paleochannel of the River Ure, Cambridge explains.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
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“Extenuates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extenuates. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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