"exonerative" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From exonerate + -ive.",
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          "ref": "2025 January 24, Jonathan Moreno-Medina, Aurelie Ouss, Patrick Bayer, Bocar A. Ba, “Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings”, in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, →DOI:",
          "text": "Journalist Radley Balko has coined the term “exonerative tense” for […] language structures [specifically designed to diminish the central, active role of police officers in the killings] to highlight their apparent aim of dampening negative judgments about the appropriateness of the officers’ actions.",
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        "exonerating; tending to exonerate."
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        {
          "word": "exculpatory"
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  "word": "exonerative"
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