vindication

vindicate | American Dictionary

vindicate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈvɪn·dɪˌkeɪt/
to show something to have been right or true, or to show someone to be free from guilt or blame:
The decision to include Morris on the team was vindicated when he scored three touchdowns.

vindication

noun[ C/U ]us/ˌvɪn·dɪˈkeɪ·ʃən/
[ U ]They are hoping for vindication in court.

Examples of vindicate

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Through the completion of the project, the college has clearly vindicated and, indeed, exceeded its ambition.
The assumption following concerning the time-scale of the large-scale field may now be vindicated.
How can coercion, by definition a compromise of external freedom-that freedom, that is, ordinarily protected and vindicated by the doctrine of right-be compatible with right?
Such assessments would soon appear to be vindicated.
In fact, his argument seems vindicated in most industrial democracies for the last two decades.
He concludes that all three hypotheses were supported and that the critical period hypothesis is vindicated.
The brothers' attitudes toward institutions could be quite instrumental, a point vindicated by the institutional track record of the two protagonists.
Her instincts were vindicated by society critics, who, on the whole, found her a powerful alternative to the play's showy amoralists.
His anger imparted his acute sense of betrayal and the necessity of vindicating his maturity.
Thus, premise will not stand, and explanatory ecumenism can be vindicated.
The wisdom of this choice was not vindicated by subsequent history.
The current study indicates that the value of such detail has vindicated the time spent in transcribing them.
He could not be vindicated by any other principles, either.
If the content of the cophonologies themselves were sufficient to account for reduplication data, then we could indeed conclude that the morpheme-based view is vindicated.
Figure 2 vindicates these theoretical expectations, summarizing district-level estimates of coalition sticking by party and coalition.
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