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Discover LudwigThe word "Exonerated" is correct in written English
It is used when someone is declared free from blame or fault, especially in a legal context. Example: "After a lengthy investigation, the court exonerated him of all charges." Alternatives include "cleared of charges" or "absolved."
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The former police officer was eventually completely exonerated, with anti-abortion, anti-gay terrorist Eric Robert Rudolph later found to have built the bomb, and the security guard went on to sue the NBC and CNN networks for their part in attacking him.
Dreyfus was finally exonerated in 1906, but the army refused to count his time on Devil's Island towards his seniority and promotion.
The accusation was false and Lumumba was exonerated after it was clear he had an alibi.
But belief in its possibility exonerated him from all charges of national disloyalty.
Grosskreutz was exonerated by a taxi driver, who saw the supposed victim and said he had a smeared T-shirt but no reddened eyes.
It attacked the corporation for declining to appear before the committee, claiming: "Instead, it chose to conduct its own internal inquiry whose findings entirely exonerated itself and its producers of any professional or legal wrongdoing".
False witness evidence has been found to be a crucial factor in three-quarters of the cases where convicted prisoners were found to be innocent and were then exonerated.
The egg is increasingly being exonerated as a health hazard – the latest findings from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee in the US say that eating foods high in cholesterol may not significantly affect levels of cholesterol in the blood, and hence it has dropped its restrictions on dietary cholesterol.
Elia Kazan - the friend who had denounced so many decent Americans and would have denounced Miller had he known of his earlier communist associations - was excused if not exonerated.
To the contrary, the DNA that Atlas took from the employees exonerated them of any wrongdoing.
North Carolina's longest-serving death row inmate and his half-brother serving a life sentence have been exonerated and released from prison after spending more than 30 years behind bars for a rape and murder they did not commit.
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