exculpatory

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Recent Examples of exculpatory The difference is that Perry Mason himself really did use his knowledge of the legal fineries to get his exculpatory evidence introduced, while Ben Matlock mostly just monologued for the jury, blowing past every objection. Noel Murray, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025 Aziz and Islam's estate have also separately sued in federal court, accusing the FBI of hiding exculpatory evidence. N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025 The information is not necessarily exculpatory for Kohberger, Hippler countered. Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 11 Feb. 2025 Prosecutors were also accused of hiding evidence of the use of informants during trial, keeping the practice secret, and keeping exculpatory information from reaching defense attorneys. Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for exculpatory
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Adjective
  • The Tigers, meanwhile, have searched for the blend every baseball team looks for: Merging the old school and the new, analytic savvy and human feel.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • Superintelligence is the point at which AI intelligence passes human intelligence in general cognitive and analytic functions.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • And it’s also arrived at a particular moment, in a particular discursive world, in which opinions are strong, objections are instant, and differences are emphasized.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 27 May 2025
  • Set entirely in Linda’s Manhattan apartment, the film freely and imaginatively recreates that long-ago afternoon and the wonderfully discursive exchange between these two singular individuals.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025

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“Exculpatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exculpatory. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.

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