How to Use deniability in a Sentence
deniability
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The risk is that a U.S. drone could be shot down, but there are ways of preserving U.S. deniability.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
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The strategy allows for deniability on the part of labs, who sell the peptides to the clinics at cost.
—Lindsay Gellman, Longreads, 22 Mar. 2018
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But for most of the past four decades, they’ve been expressed in coded terms, with a degree of deniability.
—Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
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The fact that the attacks are blamed on private firms gives Putin a veneer of deniability.
—Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 June 2021
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And in the process, Trump has abandoned the plausible deniability that once served him so well.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 27 Mar. 2023
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The theme of the day Wednesday for the New York Jets: plausible deniability.
—Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
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And if Iran wanted to kill Americans, any of those groups could do that on its behalf, with some deniability, said the experts.
—Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 21 June 2019
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But Western experts say this deniability is part of the point.
—Brad Lendon, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
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The way the item looks, there's still some plausible deniability.
—Marcus Jones, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2021
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Cissy’s confession gives him some deniability, so that he’s not put in jail for that.
—Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Apr. 2023
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How much deniability can any of them really lay claim to?
—Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2021
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This provides a measure of plausible deniability for actions that the Kremlin does not want to be linked to publicly.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 1 June 2017
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Hillary Clinton is a sharp politician who knows the fine art of plausible deniability.
—Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 4 Nov. 2017
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Wagner's forces have been used as the tip of the spear in Syria, but their shadowy presence affords Moscow a degree of deniability.
—Sebastian Shukla and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 21 July 2021
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To maintain plausible deniability, this time, Price is being left in the dark.
—Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 17 Jan. 2017
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And if the message is delivered by the personal lawyer, then the president's got some deniability there.
—NBC News, 21 Nov. 2019
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Any big shot with half a brain knows the importance of plausible deniability.
—T.a. Frank, The Hive, 20 Apr. 2018
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Maybe his advisers cooked something up but kept him out of the loop for plausible deniability.
—Matt Ford, New Republic, 24 Jan. 2018
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We've also been stripped of our deniability, Poland said.
—Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2020
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In Joanie’s room, Flora drops her wrap and unbuttons her corset in a practiced way that aims to seduce while maintaining deniability.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
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Putin will probably get away with deniability on sports doping, even though nobody with a brain believes it.
—Mercury News Editorial Board, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2017
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This was less of a purge than an attempt to maintain plausible deniability.
—Timothy Shenk, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2022
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The botched nerve-agent attack, since exposed, was supposed to have been accomplished with deniability.
—Kenneth Roth, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
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So too, the way Mr Trump seems to have used Mr Cohen as a blunt instrument, while keeping him at arm’s length for plausible deniability, is a familiar pattern.
—The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
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Whether Fisher was being truthful or practicing the art of plausible deniability is in the eye of the beholder.
—Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al, 7 June 2022
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Huawei hid its connection to Skycom, using it as a cutout to do business in Iran with plausible deniability.
—Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 23 Mar. 2021
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But at least then there was a veneer of plausible deniability.
—Erika D. Smith Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2020
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By shuffling money from one group to another until one of them finally spends it, candidates and donors alike have deniability for how it is used.
—Rachel Shorey, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
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The actions though proxies give Iran a cloak of plausible deniability, said Vakil.
—Susannah George, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
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The possibility of misinterpretation—or plausible deniability—might be part of the appeal of using emoji at work.
—Lora Kelley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2023
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