Extenuating

"Extenuating" in a Sentence (3 examples)

Extenuating circumstances led the judge to pass a more lenient sentence.

Those are extenuating circumstances.

In the instant case, testimony has been offered that there were extenuating circumstances which might have made it impossible for the Hospital to comply with the time limit (Union office closed on April 4, 1974, for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day March).

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