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as in acquitted

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verb

past tense of vindicate

as in exonerated

to free from a charge of wrongdoing vowed that the evidence would completely vindicate him

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as in confirmed

to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of recent discoveries have generally vindicated the physicist's theories

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What makes this especially hard for City fans is they have been routinely told that their club would be vindicated. — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026 Although the antifascist left may have been vindicated by history, the widespread association of antifascism with Communism helps explain why Americans, including Roosevelt, came so late to the cause. — Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 Tesla Tesla will either disappoint millions of fans, or finally be vindicated a little over two weeks from now. — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 14 Sep. 2026 An Italian high court definitively vindicated Knox in 2015, throwing out the convictions once and for all. — ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026 Tran’s lawyer has called the charges trumped up and said Tran will be vindicated in the end. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026 Far from being vindicated, however, she was crushed as a brazen, thorough cover-up emerged. — Fern Schumer Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026 The two newspapers were briefly silenced by the White House, which persuaded the courts to order them to cease releasing the documents, and then were vindicated when the Supreme Court barred the government from restraining publication. — Heather Hendershot, The Conversation, 31 July 2026 Continue reading … ‘TIP OF THE ICEBERG’ — GOP says years of noncitizen voter warnings vindicated as scandal explodes. — FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026

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Not all pads are alike, but a footprint on the larger side involves five to ten acres of cleared, packed ground that serves as the hub for drilling equipment, which can include wellheads, pump jacks, tanks, wastewater storage pits, trailers, and flare stacks.

— Alex Heard, Outside, 4 Mar. 2026
What counts as a cleared sidewalk?

— Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 1 Dec. 2025

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In the latter half of the 1970s, Montgomery played a victim in A Case of Rape, accused and acquitted murderer Lizzie Borden in The Legend of Lizzie Borden and a pioneer woman in The Awakening Land.

— Justine Fisher, PEOPLE, 12 Oct. 2026
Among those tried was Anthony (Tony) White; though he had earlier been acquitted of any connection with the robbery, in October 1995 he was found liable, alongside McAvoy and Robinson, for the full £26 million value of the gold.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026

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The notice must include the date and time immigration enforcement was confirmed, the location, and a link to resources.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
The all-singing, all-dancing comedy drama will also debut in China on Tencent Kids, Youku Kids and BesTV (dates still to be confirmed).

— K.J. Yossman, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of confirmed

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There were other consequences for the city too – like the hefty settlement payments Detroit doled out to the exonerated men in Simon’s cases.

— Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026
The film’s most tense and destabilizing sequence is a confrontational meeting between the exonerated men and Bishop.

— Beandrea July, IndieWire, 29 Jan. 2026

Definition of exonerated

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The claim that Ukraine has halted its strikes on energy sites could not be independently verified, but neither Russian officials nor media have reported Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries since the energy truce was announced.

— HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026
The account was verified and had the handle @miagoth_, but the Pearl and Maxxine actress famously does not use social media and has never had a public Instagram account.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of verified

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Some economists argued that government attempts to intervene in the economy were doomed to fail.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
Among the clues supporting an asteroid origin are mineral and chemical signatures identified in material collected from the region that researchers have argued are consistent with a stony or carbonaceous asteroid.

— Micah Hanks, Space.com, 12 Oct. 2026

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