Extenuation used in a sentence

Extenuation in a sentence as a noun

All that in a period when people were choosing between literally dying of huger unemployed or of extenuation at work. Just because the cataclysm is temporary does not mean it didn't exist.

The problem with treating changed circumstances as some sort of extenuation for all the broken promises and unenforced laws, is that the changed circumstances were intentionally engineered by Ma Bell, regardless of the lies they told. Fool us a dozen times, shame on us.

It's an extenuation of the love of programming I picked up when I was first exposed to a Tandy Level I at my local junior high school. I enjoy going hiking or going swimming in a lake or river or going to movies with friends when that was still a thing, but it's mostly experiencing, whereas programming side projects is creating.