Clear
Excuse
Excuse verb - To dismiss as of little importance.
Usage example: more often than not, voters are willing to excuse a candidate's youthful indiscretion
Clear is a synonym for excuse in action topic. Sometimes you can use "Clear" instead a verb "Excuse", if it concerns topics such as exonerate, forgive.
Common collocations
| people | clear people | excuse people |
| part | clear part | excuse part |
| relationship | clear relationship | excuse relationship |
| time | clear time | excuse time |
| Other words: debts. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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It thus becomes quite clear that the other partners are just waiting for an excuse to fire him for good.
Source: Series / Mad Men - Also, while it's a bad excuse, it was clear the adults were looking for ANY excuse whatsoever to annul it... but the 'forced' part must not have been on the books.
Source: Wedding Deadline - Satan gives his own excuse in song, making it clear that he's just a sort of pathetic Punch Clock Villain who wants to get out of Hell.
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