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Example sentences for: excused

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The NYT national edition leads with a story you could be excused for not worrying about--White House and Congressional plans for spending all those future federal budget surpluses.
A government order excused most of the sect's adherents as victims who didn't know they were joining a subversive political organization.
I excused myself at once, left Roger in Cupid's hands and went over to check out another participle I'd noticed dangling by the bar.
KSM says that he never met with Mihdhar in 1999 but assumed that Bin Ladin and Atef had briefed Mihdhar on the planes operation and had excused him from the Karachi training.
Legal analysts' spin: The jury's rejection of first-degree murder shows they were sympathetic to McKinney . Gay activists' spin: The judge's rejection of "gay panic" means that hate crimes won't be excused .