as in justifiable
worthy of forgiveness
only guilty of remissible sins
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Stand your ground laws and their complicated history Most stand your ground laws center around justifiable uses of force, according to Cynthia Godsoe, a professor of criminal law at Brooklyn Law School.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
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Homicides involving white shooters and Black victims are more likely to be ruled justifiable than those involving Black shooters and white victims.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
17 Oct. 2025
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Too many Republicans today seem to have a different idea, that bad behavior is excusable so long as the perpetrator is advancing their priorities.—
Colin Pascal,
Baltimore Sun,
4 Aug. 2025
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In the United States, the Paycheck Protection Program directed nearly $800 billion in forgivable loans to small businesses.—
Ugo Troiano,
Oc Register,
25 Oct. 2025
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And not much in these pages is forgivable.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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But in this instance, the breach is entirely pardonable, because these two men, Jun and Arthur, have just gotten married.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Aug. 2025
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All this is to say that any excesses of enthusiasm for Friday (and Thursday) might seem pardonable, although each day reached the thermal pinnacle of the 80s.—
Martin Weil,
Washington Post,
19 July 2024
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“Remissible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remissible. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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