Absolve

This is just another case of parents trying to absolve their selves of guilt and absolve their adult child of personal responsibility.

Although Rodgers had a down year last season—his quarterback rating was his lowest-ever as a starter—many observers were quick to absolve him of most blame: after all, Green Bay lost its top receiver, Davante Adams, to a trade with the Las Vegas Raiders.

Any “hypocritical double standards” could only implicate others, never absolve Thomas — at least without invoking the “well, Jamie’s mom let’s her do it” doctrine.

Can these parties absolve themselves of all the wrongs that happened during the MDA government regime?

However, while Jax fought hard to absolve SAMCRO’s crimes and lead the club in an honest direction, Tara realized right from the start there was no escaping the life of violence the Sons of Anarchy lived.

I guess after the 2022 midterms and the less-intense-than-expected effect of inflation on voting choices, I’m skeptical frustrated voters would absolve the GOP for its role in a default and vote for the party’s presidential candidate.

I’ll absolve Moore and put this on Harris, even though he’s in a tough matchup (this happened to him in Week 12 against Hendrickson, some tough breaks).

In the same vein as Pelosi, California’s governor volunteered reparations to absolve the nation of its inherited guilt.

Johnson said the justices are doing what they can “to try to absolve themselves of the wrongdoing that they’re clearly practicing,” said Johnson.

Marvel often goes out of their way to redeem her and absolve her, but being a villain often makes Scarlet Witch more interesting than when she's a vanilla-flavored hero.

Megan put a stop to the speculation in an comment that she wrote on Sunday February 19. “How me making a joke in order to absolve this girl of a hurtful accusation somehow turned into a confirmation of it – I will never understand,” she remarked.

Notably, it did not absolve Trump of the obligation to tell the court by today if he intends to attend the trial.

The “Run It!” singer also clarified that he is not Muslim or Jewish, as if that would absolve him of any bigotry claims.

Trump set the stage but that doesn’t absolve Biden of blame.

A lot of offensive football today is ugly and sloppy, not to absolve the Steelers of anything.

Concurrent with the attempt to delegitimize the case that there was a rash of sexual abuse and rape is an attempt to absolve Hamas of any wrongdoing.

He said whether Mr Kadir was there in person was "irrelevant" because it didn't absolve him of his duty of responsibility for what is sold on his premises.

In fact, the hatred became the answer to their own intersectional dilemmas: If “whites” are the root of all evil, how to absolve their own white guilt?

None of these rulings “absolve him of anything,” said Mary McCord, a law professor at Georgetown University.

People only say it's those things because they don't want to talk about what *actually* happened and want to absolve their complicity with what is still happening.