How to Use deniability in a Sentence

deniability

noun

• The risk is that a U.S. drone could be shot down, but there are ways of preserving U.S. deniability.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
• The strategy allows for deniability on the part of labs, who sell the peptides to the clinics at cost.
  — Lindsay Gellman, Longreads, 22 Mar. 2018
• But for most of the past four decades, they’ve been expressed in coded terms, with a degree of deniability.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
• The fact that the attacks are blamed on private firms gives Putin a veneer of deniability.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 June 2021
• And in the process, Trump has abandoned the plausible deniability that once served him so well.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 27 Mar. 2023
• The theme of the day Wednesday for the New York Jets: plausible deniability.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• On the one hand, there’s plenty of plausible deniability around each of the statements from Eilish that fans are up in arms about.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 1 June 2024
• And if Iran wanted to kill Americans, any of those groups could do that on its behalf, with some deniability, said the experts.
  — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 21 June 2019
• But Western experts say this deniability is part of the point.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
• The way the item looks, there's still some plausible deniability.
  — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2021
• Cissy’s confession gives him some deniability, so that he’s not put in jail for that.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Apr. 2023
• How much deniability can any of them really lay claim to?
  — Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2021
• This provides a measure of plausible deniability for actions that the Kremlin does not want to be linked to publicly.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 1 June 2017
• Hillary Clinton is a sharp politician who knows the fine art of plausible deniability.
  — Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 4 Nov. 2017
• Wagner's forces have been used as the tip of the spear in Syria, but their shadowy presence affords Moscow a degree of deniability.
  — Sebastian Shukla and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 21 July 2021
• To maintain plausible deniability, this time, Price is being left in the dark.
  — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 17 Jan. 2017
• And if the message is delivered by the personal lawyer, then the president's got some deniability there.
  — NBC News, 21 Nov. 2019
• Any big shot with half a brain knows the importance of plausible deniability.
  — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 20 Apr. 2018
• Maybe his advisers cooked something up but kept him out of the loop for plausible deniability.
  — Matt Ford, New Republic, 24 Jan. 2018
• We've also been stripped of our deniability, Poland said.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2020
• In Joanie’s room, Flora drops her wrap and unbuttons her corset in a practiced way that aims to seduce while maintaining deniability.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
• Putin will probably get away with deniability on sports doping, even though nobody with a brain believes it.
  — Mercury News Editorial Board, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2017
• This was less of a purge than an attempt to maintain plausible deniability.
  — Timothy Shenk, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2022
• The botched nerve-agent attack, since exposed, was supposed to have been accomplished with deniability.
  — Kenneth Roth, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
• So too, the way Mr Trump seems to have used Mr Cohen as a blunt instrument, while keeping him at arm’s length for plausible deniability, is a familiar pattern.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• Whether Fisher was being truthful or practicing the art of plausible deniability is in the eye of the beholder.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 7 June 2022
• Huawei hid its connection to Skycom, using it as a cutout to do business in Iran with plausible deniability.
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 23 Mar. 2021
• But at least then there was a veneer of plausible deniability.
  — Erika D. Smith Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2020
• By shuffling money from one group to another until one of them finally spends it, candidates and donors alike have deniability for how it is used.
  — Rachel Shorey, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• This strategy was based on a belief that the networks Iran had built up gave it the ability to project power without risking direct entanglement, exacting costs while maintaining a veneer of deniability.
  — Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 15 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024