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Exculpate
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To clear or excuse from guilt.

An individual who uses the excuse of justification to explain the lawful reason for his or her action might be exculpated from a criminal charge. Exculpatory evidence is evidence that works to clear an individual from fault.
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Moreover, the citizens, unconscious of the conceptual distinction and fundamental connection of event and interpretation, use their stories to "support" the "official story": the tale of the Disallowing authorizes further disallowings in Ruby based upon race and gender; and the tale of the Convent massacre exculpates the killers and affirms 8-rock identity and rule.
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Rather, the PBC fully exculpates the text by means of positivistic historiography.
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Our culture has forgotten so many things or, perhaps, remembered them in a way that distorts and exculpates.
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