How to Use vindication in a Sentence
vindication
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Yusef Salaam, one of the five, said the gate would serve as a form of vindication.
— Justin Klawans, The Week, 12 Dec. 2022 -
Can it be viewed as vindication or a clean bill of health?
— Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Apr. 2018 -
But the White House was quick to hail the news as vindication of its efforts to fight the opioid crisis.
— The Economist, 7 Oct. 2020 -
Foer’s book ends with the midterms, so it is imbued with a sense of vindication.
— Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023 -
Coming back to Italy now is in many ways a vindication.
— André Aciman, Town & Country, 18 June 2020 -
Willard Miller, 41, called the jury’s not guilty verdict on one count of child abuse a vindication.
— Phil Helsel, NBC News, 13 May 2022 -
The Abraham Accords with the Gulf Arabs are a vindication of that vision.
— WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022 -
First, there is the notion that the Nobel Prize equals vindication.
— C. Brandon Ogbunu, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2023 -
That too might be some sort of vindication of Donald Trump.
— Ryan Goodman, Slate Magazine, 12 Dec. 2017 -
That the Supreme Court even agreed to consider the no-fly-list case is, in his mind, vindication, Albury says.
— New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021 -
Last week was a vindication for Ellis, the first coach to win back-to-back Women's World Cup titles.
— Grant Wahl, SI.com, 8 July 2019 -
These last few weeks must feel like something of a vindication.
— Adam Rogers, Wired, 3 Dec. 2020 -
The 5-year-old mare, who is the 6-5 morning line favorite, may have a more difficult path this year if vindication is the goal.
— Tim Dwyer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 June 2018 -
Some are describing it as vindication, showing that the school and its fans are not racist.
— Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022 -
Darnold said there was no sense of vindication beating the team that traded him in the offseason.
— Steve Reed, courant.com, 12 Sep. 2021 -
For the Rajapaksas, the election is vindication on a grand scale.
— The Economist, 7 Aug. 2020 -
The vibrations rattling the place were of vindication, and the chaos at the buzzer was rare for Bryant-Denny Stadium.
— Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 9 Oct. 2022 -
And so this week’s accolade at the World Whiskies Awards also serves as vindication for the fanbase.
— Brad Japhe, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021 -
For many Black leaders, Mr. Adams’s election is both a vindication and cause to wonder what might have been.
— New York Times, 13 July 2021 -
Not quite a Disney villain cackle of glee, but more a smug, adrenalin rush of vindication.
— Chloe Malle, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2023 -
The result was a vindication of his tough stance towards the West, Putin loyalists said.
— Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2018 -
Taylor, through his attorney, seemed to treat Catron’s plea in the case as vindication.
— Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022 -
Georgetown came back in the second half and won by a single point, 50-49, but the game was seen as vindication for small schools and changed the nature of the NCAA tournament.
— John Otis, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2022 -
For many Palestinians, the outpouring of support among the fans at the World Cup felt like vindication.
— Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022 -
De Silva’s son is still riding the high of vindication.
— Bridget Read, Curbed, 21 Dec. 2023 -
Trolls emerged en masse seeking some kind of strange vindication.
— Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 7 July 2020 -
This served as a massive vindication for a band that has never fit into the Latin mainstream.
— Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2021 -
Given all this, Democrats would be wise to treat the 2022 elections not as a vindication but as a stay of execution.
— Alexander Burns, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022 -
However, one thing gives the star vindication 20 years later.
— Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2024 -
To see her all these years later is its own kind of miracle—not something out of Dreyer, perhaps, but still a mighty vindication of cinema’s glories.
— Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2024
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