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The study notes that subtle forms of abuse can be "mixed with other positive behaviors or performed in a positive way, making them easily excused and normalized in a relationship."

Many more of us would be excused for forgetting the other reports of assaults Combs was associated with.

At first, the school board reacted to the complaints by saying parents could have their children excused from the class when the new textbooks were being used or discussed.

Southern California’s U.S. attorney for the next five days excused himself and went back to work at his stand-up desk.

He excused himself from the meeting and went out on a balcony, where he spotted a fire burning in roughly the same spot where the conflagration had been a week earlier.