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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for exculpatory
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exculpatory
Adjective
  • In California and Oregon, the laboratories that typically perform analytical chemistry for wineries were quickly overwhelmed.
    Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Additionally, the analytical assessments performed by the team indicate that the sensitivity of this quantum array approach is higher than classical alternatives.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • His palette is light, smudgy guitar textures and warm synths; his message, more gestural than discursive, is love and lust.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Set in the uneasy era between world wars, when shifts of all kinds are taking place — commercial radios sputtering to life, vaudeville theaters shutting down — Pynchon’s first novel in 12 years is a discursive comic pleasure.
    Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • The Associated Press receives support from Charles Schwab Foundation for educational and explanatory reporting to improve financial literacy.
    Adriana Morga, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
  • There is a video-game quality to this format, if the game’s ratio of action to onscreen explanatory text were, say, one to five.
    Judy Berman, Time, 26 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s so much to see on the Jackson Hill Trail System, a public recreation area that includes winding trails; historic exhibits, landmarks, and interpretive markers; and a unique attraction called the Labyrinth of Rome.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Confronting such dramatic mutations requires interpretive and historical learning and the willingness to perceive politics as a dense field of meanings, not something to be flattened into numbers or variables on a graph.
    Jason Blakely, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025

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“Exculpatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exculpatory. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

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