compurgation

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Noun
  • Shocking Photos of the Violent Riots at the U.S. Capitol The Times also reports that Hemphill may face some legal challenges in rejecting the pardon.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Matthew Graves, the now-former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, said the pardons can’t erase what people witnessed.
    Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Biden administration made two more attempts to enact mass student loan forgiveness.
    Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Trump has criticized the scope of Biden's student loan forgiveness.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Santa Maria Maggiore is one of Rome’s four papal basilicas (along with St. Peter’s, the Lateran, and San Paolo fuori le Mura), and during the Jubilee year their holy doors will remain open so that pilgrims can pass through — a rite associated with remission of sins.
    David Laskin, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Mickelson says the goal is to bring about significant changes in therapy and drive toward remission.
    Johnson & Johnson, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Still, President Joe Biden's unconditional, full absolution of his son is different in one unprecedented way: No commander-in-chief has ever granted clemency to his child, according to experts.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The Persistent Realities of Inequities But acknowledgment is not absolution, and ambition is not justice.
    Lenwood V. Long, Sr., Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But police hiring picked back up during the height of the war on drugs in the 1980s and again after another inflection point, the unrest that followed the acquittal of four LAPD officers in the 1991 beating of Black motorist Rodney King.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • In 2019, before the acquittal, Mr. Trump pressed Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia to name Mr. Collins to the Senate seat vacated by Johnny Isakson.
    Noah Weiland, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Trump’s many personal grievances—and his obvious delight in the vindication that his victory represents—are what made this Inauguration so different from any of its predecessors, including his first one, eight years ago.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Peace confines violence to self-defense in vindication of the right of self-preservation.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
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