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Recent Examples of extenuation
Not surprisingly, fellow-travelers on the left criticized Conquest either from a wish to disbelieve the Soviet horrors or from an ideological sympathy that compelled extenuation of them.
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Peter J. Travers, National Review, 29 Mar. 2022
Peter J. Travers, National Review, 29 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extenuation
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But a February 2019 confession from two brothers questioned in connection with the attack quickly led to the unraveling of Smollett’s account and credibility.Megan Thomas, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
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The first three episodes involve Wyler attempting to trap Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge (Rory Kinnear) in a confession, a plan that fails spectacularly because Wyler follows a series of embarrassingly incorrect hunches.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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He’s finally painted the town in the colors of his mother’s desperate dreams, but there will be no verbal acknowledgment of pride to drown out her final words of hate.Andy Andersen, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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There was little acknowledgment that Democrats are parents too. Nor do women live in a vacuum.Pamela Paul, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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In place of the original’s portrait of political awakening, the sequel follows an artist (Milena Smit) who’s checked herself into the Pit as a form of personal atonement.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2024
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Perhaps Netanyahu’s most disquieting elision in his U.N. speech, in this season of atonement, is that Moses’s admonition to choose blessings over curses was aimed specifically at the Children of Israel.Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Extenuation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extenuation. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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