Definition of "exculpated" [exculpated]

• Simple past tense and past participle of exculpate. (verb)

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• "And why haven't banks, happily exculpated by the narrative, reminded us that they warned at the time that they were being forced to make foolish loans that would endanger their solvency?"
• "He is therefore exculpated on the grounds of ill motive, but not perhaps adherence to ethical form."
• "There is no mystery where the Occupy Wall Street movement came from: It is an offspring of the same false narrative about the causes of the financial crisis that exculpated the government and brought us the Dodd-Frank Act."