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- noun Plural form of
alibi .
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Examples
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After that, she talked a bit about statism and human rights as an "alibis" that could be "philosophically inaccessible and useless" when not framed with real people and material politics in mind.
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Also, they are going to reconstruct his leaving Salt Lake City until he ended up in Virginia and try to answer the questions and do a timeline of all these days that he has been missing, and then verify, check, and crosscheck with any kind of alibis of where he stayed and where he had gone.
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They had made "alibis" a special study; the very judges were staggered by the calmness and plausibility with which they got themselves out of difficulties.
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In her estimation, their alibis were the weakest; they’d mutually supported one another.
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In her estimation, their alibis were the weakest; they’d mutually supported one another.
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In what follows, I analyze the different types of "alibis" that I have heard or read about with regards to the legality of the constitutional amendment.
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Yet we can see the alibis already taking their ghostly shape.
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Which takes some doing: Selfish and self-absorbed, they're state-of-the-art hipsters who provide themselves all manner of moral alibis through holier-than-thou lifestyle options.
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And the numbing guilt of middle-class infidelity is neatly summed up: "She was having to get up in the morning and make cold arrangements of lies and alibis, as other women of Isabel's age laid out arrangements of meats and salads."
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In the meantime, we don't need a couple of internal reviews to create new alibis for CBSA and DFAIT.
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