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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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If Spurs find their feet soon under De Zerbi, their transfer approach will be vindicated. — Dan Kilpatrick, New York Times, 25 Aug. 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 By the time Fedorov lost his job last week, his years of advocacy for high-tech warfare had been vindicated. — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026 This was the toughest test of Dave Rennie's young tenure as All Blacks head coach and he was vindicated in his efforts to establish a bold, ball-in-hand game in a six tries-to-three win. — ABC News, 18 July 2026 The Senate minority leader, whose reservations about Platner were vindicated by the candidate’s implosion, is staying on the sidelines; so is the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 16 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

Definition of cleared

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Prosecutors opted to retry Read, and she was acquitted of the most serious charges, second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a collision resulting in death, in June 2025.

— Melina Khan, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Rogers was acquitted at trial of the more serious charge of conspiracy to commit economic espionage.

— Dan Mangan, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of acquitted

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The department later confirmed that the area was secure and that no further threat to the public remained.

— Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
Neither club had announced the deal as of early Wednesday afternoon, but multiple sources confirmed to the Miami Herald that the trade was done and Allen was headed to Chicago.

— Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 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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At the airport, passengers must first have their identity verified with a REAL ID, often using facial recognition technology.

— Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Formally verified by the European Solar Test Installation (ESTI), this benchmark shows the technical progress in scaling up high-efficiency thin-film architectures beyond sub-centimeter laboratory devices.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of verified

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Group argued construction could be irreversible The National Trust for Historic Preservation, which is challenging the ballroom, had told the justices that the project would likely become irreversible unless it is stopped now.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Palal acknowledged that Davis’ accounts of the killing evolved over the years but argued those differences reflected Davis’ changing motivations and efforts to protect himself.

— Jonathan Landrum Jr, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026

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