exonerate ɛgˈzɑnəreɪt verb
: pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
The word exonerate has appeared in 29 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 24 in “‘Adolescence’ Has People Talking. Its Writer Wants Lawmakers to Act,” by Alex Marshall. The article includes examples of television shows that transformed topics of social concern into urgent political issues in real life:
More recently, after the 2024 broadcast of “Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office,” a drama about hundreds of real postal workers who were wrongly convicted of theft, Rishi Sunak, the prime minister at the time, quickly announced a law to exonerate them.
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