How to Use vindication in a Sentence

vindication

noun

• Yusef Salaam, one of the five, said the gate would serve as a form of vindication.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 12 Dec. 2022
• Can it be viewed as vindication or a clean bill of health?
  — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Apr. 2018
• But the White House was quick to hail the news as vindication of its efforts to fight the opioid crisis.
  — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2020
• Mr. Smith viewed the results as a vindication of Trump.
  — Alan Suderman, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2017
• Foer’s book ends with the midterms, so it is imbued with a sense of vindication.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023
• Coming back to Italy now is in many ways a vindication.
  — André Aciman, Town & Country, 18 June 2020
• For other board members, the last 19 months have been a time of vindication.
  — Marlene Sokol, Tampa Bay Times, 20 Feb. 2017
• Sounds like a vindication of the bedtime resisters, at least in part.
  — Cari Romm, The Cut, 18 July 2017
• Willard Miller, 41, called the jury’s not guilty verdict on one count of child abuse a vindication.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 13 May 2022
• The Abraham Accords with the Gulf Arabs are a vindication of that vision.
  — WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
• First, there is the notion that the Nobel Prize equals vindication.
  — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2023
• That too might be some sort of vindication of Donald Trump.
  — Ryan Goodman, Slate Magazine, 12 Dec. 2017
• That the Supreme Court even agreed to consider the no-fly-list case is, in his mind, vindication, Albury says.
  — New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• Last week was a vindication for Ellis, the first coach to win back-to-back Women's World Cup titles.
  — Grant Wahl, SI.com, 8 July 2019
• These last few weeks must feel like something of a vindication.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 3 Dec. 2020
• Many of his accusers see the charges as a form of vindication -- no matter the trial's outcome.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 3 June 2017
• The 5-year-old mare, who is the 6-5 morning line favorite, may have a more difficult path this year if vindication is the goal.
  — Tim Dwyer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 June 2018
• Some are describing it as vindication, showing that the school and its fans are not racist.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
• Darnold said there was no sense of vindication beating the team that traded him in the offseason.
  — Steve Reed, courant.com, 12 Sep. 2021
• For the Rajapaksas, the election is vindication on a grand scale.
  — The Economist, 7 Aug. 2020
• The vibrations rattling the place were of vindication, and the chaos at the buzzer was rare for Bryant-Denny Stadium.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 9 Oct. 2022
• And so this week’s accolade at the World Whiskies Awards also serves as vindication for the fanbase.
  — Brad Japhe, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• For many Black leaders, Mr. Adams’s election is both a vindication and cause to wonder what might have been.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2021
• It was billed as the vindication of the quantum computer.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2016
• Not quite a Disney villain cackle of glee, but more a smug, adrenalin rush of vindication.
  — Chloe Malle, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2023
• The result was a vindication of his tough stance towards the West, Putin loyalists said.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2018
• Taylor, through his attorney, seemed to treat Catron’s plea in the case as vindication.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
• Georgetown came back in the second half and won by a single point, 50-49, but the game was seen as vindication for small schools and changed the nature of the NCAA tournament.
  — John Otis, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2022
• This became a moment of vindication for the women who had been forced into silence for so many years.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
• Still, Republicans could read the election results as either a vindication or a rebuke of Trump’s approach.
  — Lavanya Ramanathan, Vox, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Jan 2025