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as in acquits
to free from a charge of wrongdoing
vowed that the evidence would completely vindicate him
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as in confirms
to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of
recent discoveries have generally vindicated the physicist's theories
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Recent Examples of vindicates
The expansion also vindicates Grab’s business model, which has dominated Southeast Asia’s ride-hailing and food-delivery market for close to a decade.
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Angelica Ang, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2026
Journalists laid off by Lake say the ruling vindicates them and represents an important step toward restoring the news organization.
—David Bauder, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
The company argues that today’s deal with BMW vindicates the solid-state approach to lidar, in which the laser beam is steered without machinery.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2018
Angelica Ang, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2026
Journalists laid off by Lake say the ruling vindicates them and represents an important step toward restoring the news organization.
—David Bauder, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
The company argues that today’s deal with BMW vindicates the solid-state approach to lidar, in which the laser beam is steered without machinery.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vindicates
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In the proud lineage of pint-sized blonde women who’ve held their own against Madonna, Carpenter acquits herself quite well.—
Harry Tafoya,
Pitchfork,
1 May 2026
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To fit all listening scenarios, like all DALI loudspeakers, KUPID also acquits itself at low and high volumes.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Achieving criticality confirms that the design can sustain the nuclear reactions required for future energy production.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
19 June 2026
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Global search data confirms growing interest in cultural districts and nightlife, with San Francisco's Castro district seeing a 157% search increase.—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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Pressed to provide a single minute of footage that exonerates his deputies or his own leadership during the two weeks Mitchell suffered in a cell just downstairs from his office, Smith offers a rare blink.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
8 Mar. 2026
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Here is the video with the new angle from Collins that exonerates Mahomes.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
17 Oct. 2025
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The fault line of the next decade is not who generates knowledge the fastest, but who verifies it.—
Christian Catalini,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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This program verifies magnet performance before the parts are locked into the main reactor.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
30 May 2026
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The inventory risk is real, but oil bulls are giving the problem too much weight, Dwivedi argues.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
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Artist Included argues that the same technology can be pointed backward, to right an industry’s old wrongs and return ownership and income to artists never built into the deal.—
Jeff Benjamin,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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“Vindicates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vindicates. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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