How to Use absolve in a Sentence

absolve

verb

• That is not to absolve leaders from the many mistakes that were made.
  — Carter Malkasian, Time, 19 Sep. 2021
• But again, to be clear, this doesn’t absolve Smith’s acts in any manner.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 10 Apr. 2022
• That would absolve these women, who in fact share those ends.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
• My point is also not to absolve the president of any blame.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 1 Sep. 2021
• But that may still not absolve the company in a wrongful death case.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 21 June 2023
• Woody Allen went under legal scrutiny twice at the end of the ’90s and was absolved.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 25 July 2023
• Shrove is rooted in the word shrive, which means to absolve, and people often go to church to confess their sins.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 24 Jan. 2023
• Cruz continued to plead for Carlson to absolve him of his sins.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 6 Jan. 2022
• The first few lives Nora tries on are those that absolve her biggest regrets.
  — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2021
• Those who chose to invest may have egg on their faces, but their negligence does not absolve Holmes of fraud.
  — Jessica A. Roth For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 4 Jan. 2022
• But will buying a Lightning absolve me of my sins against nature?
  — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• Fine, but does that absolve us of the responsibility to seek the truth?
  — Maxim Osipov, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• As if yielding eight hits and five walks in 4⅔ innings wasn't enough to absolve him of scrutiny.
  — Star Tribune, 30 June 2021
• Your support team can absolve these concerns and convince users that your product is the right choice.
  — Yec, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• Is Derek Chauvin’s defense strong enough to absolve him of murder?
  — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2021
• Which means that technically speaking, the filmmakers have found a way to absolve Shaw of the moral weight of killing Han.
  — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2021
• Star used the king of YouTube to absolve himself of any part in the drama, and Dawson used Star as a way into the highly profitable beauty world.
  — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2021
• That should not allow soccer to absolve itself from blame.
  — New York Times, 16 July 2021
• Putin greeted the mutiny by calling Prigozhin a traitor and accusing him of sticking a knife in his back, and ended the coup by absolving Prigozhin of charges.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• One of the things this law does is absolve online platforms of responsibility for the speech of their users.
  — David Zurawik, CNN, 16 May 2022
• The language of unity and national pride is weaponized to absolve the authorities and conceal the truth.
  — Yangyang Cheng, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• To make matters worse, my quirky flourishes didn’t absolve me of anything.
  — Lacy Warner, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2021
• Does this absolve Elliott of what’s shaping up to be the least productive season of his NFL career?
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 6 Dec. 2020
• The screen-time moral panic that’s developed over the past 30 years has absolved parents of having to figure out how screens were or weren’t eroding the minds of the kids who use them.
  — Phillip MacIak, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
• Researchers not involved in the lecanemab trial—and even one who is—were more hesitant to absolve the antibody.
  — Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 30 Nov. 2022
• But those words don't absolve him from the horror that victims still grapple with decades later, Labendeira said.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 2 Apr. 2022
• Overall, this team has underachieved through eight games, and while this does not absolve players of their share in the mess, Patricia and his staff deserve a large share of the blame.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2020
• The panic in his voice served to underscore the hypocrisy of the Bakersfield Republican’s efforts to absolve Trump of guilt.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2022
• Walk just a block away in order to absolve your sins among statues, paintings of saints, and a wall of rosaries by popping into La Comida.
  — Thuc Doan Nguyen, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2021
• But that didn’t absolve the Fed of the obligation to scrutinize the bank’s operations, Kelleher says.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024