exculpatory

adjective

Definition of exculpatorynext
as in analytic

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Recent Examples of exculpatory And his exculpatory claim that parking fee revenues benefit the park raises doubts. — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026 In a separate court filing submitted Monday, Cole’s attorneys also demanded broad discovery, including all statements attributed to him, investigative notes, information about the FBI’s use of informants to identify Cole as a suspect, and any exculpatory material. — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 29 Dec. 2025 The petition further accuses prosecutors of withholding exculpatory material, including internal FBI notes, grand jury records and information about Epstein’s properties and financial transactions. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 18 Dec. 2025 During the trials, according to a Board of Bar Overseers report, the prosecutors were engaging in misconduct that included withholding exculpatory evidence and demonstrating racial bias against the defendant in emails. — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 29 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for exculpatory
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  1. analytic
  2. discursive
  3. explanatory
  4. interpretive
Adjective
  • The old hand-off between operational and analytical data must therefore become a closed loop, with sensing, inference and execution happening in near real time.
    — Richard Clough, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Federal staff also completed an audit in September on an advanced analytical model for seismic assessment.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of analytic
Adjective
  • The prolific, award-winning British author’s novels are often plotless, discursive and frustratingly obtuse.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
  • And yet this metafictional doubling—in which people appear simultaneously as themselves and with a set of fictional flourishes—has the side effect of undermining the discursive conceit of the text.
    — Maya Binyam, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of discursive
Adjective
  • As the series continues, however, Kazan plays up the explanatory power of an incident from Cathy’s childhood.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2026
  • For a writer so given to cultural reference, intellectual genealogy, and various explanatory apparatuses, this failure of language is unexpectedly liberating to read.
    — Zain Khalid, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of explanatory
Adjective
  • Another project would involve replacing 17 wayside exhibits at backcountry trailheads and three in the Cottonwood Spring area and adding three new interpretive wayside exhibits on the Mastodon Peak Loop.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • This can be true, but only when the interpretive capability around those signals is developing alongside them.
    — Dhiraj Adya, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of interpretive

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“Exculpatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exculpatory. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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