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How to use vindicate in a sentence

21 example sentences · verb

Vindicate means to clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism. Example: “Kamla Persad Bissessar: " We have been vindicated, but it is a victory for the people"”

Examples of vindicate by meaning

verbTo clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.

  • to vindicate someone's honor
  • History would vindicate him, but until it did he and his followers were forced to exist in hiding, working toward their goals in secret.2008, Drew Karpyshyn, Mass Effect: Ascension, Del Rey Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 3

verbTo justify by providing evidence.

  • to vindicate a right, claim or title
  • Kamla Persad Bissessar: " We have been vindicated, but it is a victory for the people"
  • The Ukrainians immediately demanded a goal and their claims were vindicated as replays showed the ball crossed the line before Terry's intervention.2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport

verbTo maintain or defend (a cause) against opposition.

  • to vindicate the rights of labor movement in developing countries
  • When Trump's election pulled back the curtain on the rise of the far-right in America, I'd naively assumed the Jewish left would be vindicated.2019, Eli Valley, “A Springtime of Erasure”, in Jewish Currents, number Fall 2019, page 14

verbTo provide justification for.

  • The violent history of the suspect vindicated the use of force by the police.

verbTo avenge; to punish.

  • a war to vindicate infidelity

More sentences with vindicate

  • The survey vindicated the politician's assertion that there were few persuadables among his constituents.From the entry persuadable
  • Varoufakis told Reuters TV in Athens on Thursday that he had been vindicated.2015 March 20, Robert Mackey, “Greco-German ‘Fingergate’ Gets Curiouser and Curiouser”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Fingergate
  • An inquest in camera and they would all be vindicated.2018, Kate Atkinson, Transcription, →ISBN, page 293. From the entry in camera
  • Acknowledgment unstates such implications and thus seems to legitimate victims' claims and status and vindicate their status and position.2009, Joanna R. Quinn, Reconciliation(s), page 40. From the entry unstate
  • The ruling that prescribed stoning the adulterer was in the Torah for all to see, and Muhammad was vindicated.2008, Walid A. Saleh, “A Fifteenth-Century Muslim Hebraist: Al-Biqāʿī and His Defense of Using the Bible to Interpret the Qurʾān”, in…. From the entry Torah
  • The category-theorists attitude that "function" rather than "set membership" can be seen as the fundamental mathematical concept has been entirely vindicated.1984, Robert Goldblatt, Topoi, the categorial analysis of logic, page 3. From the entry category theory
  • Trump’s supporters watch the same videos from Minneapolis and find in the sometimes murky images details that to them vindicate the shootings, actions by Ms.2026 January 25, Peter Baker, “For Trump, the Truth in Minneapolis Is What He Says It Is”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry Rorschach test
  • Graeber felt vindicated by the revolution in working life triggered by COVID, which had exposed some jobs as “essential”—while others were not.2025 February 12, Dan Vergano, Jeanna Bryner, “Return-to-Office Demands Don’t Benefit Employees or Businesses”, in Scientific American. From the entry make-work
  • Thus, by the self-subversive logic of evolution in legal ideas, we derationalize procedure the better to vindicate the rationalization of substantive law.1997, Richard Rawlings, Law, Society, and Economy: Centenary Essays for the London School of Economics and Political Science 1895-1995…. From the entry derationalize
  • At the time, however, he believed his conviction was vindicated by the example of the self-governing Korean émigré settlements in Russian Manchuria (Siberia).1991, Vipan Chandra, “Korean Human-Rights Consciousness in an Era of Transition: A Survey of Late Nineteenth-Century Developments”, in…. From the entry émigré
  • I feared a Pyrrhic victory: I had been vindicated intellectually, but I was afraid of being too right and seeing the system crumble under my feet.2010, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan, page 19. From the entry pyrrhic
  • A snob!—he, whose readiness to form what would certainly be regarded as a shocking misalliance ought to have stifled the charge, not merely vindicated him from it!1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry misalliance

Meaning of vindicate

  1. verb To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
  2. verb To justify by providing evidence.
  3. verb To maintain or defend (a cause) against opposition.

Full definition of vindicate

Questions about vindicate in a sentence

How do you use vindicate in a sentence?
Vindicate is used as a verb. For example: “Kamla Persad Bissessar: " We have been vindicated, but it is a victory for the people"”
What is a short sentence with vindicate?
“to vindicate someone's honor”
What does vindicate mean?
Vindicate means to clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.

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