incriminate
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Budensiek also said Woods had been "co-operative but was trying not to incriminate himself".
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
In a series of Substack posts, the first of which has garnered 751,000 views, Lizza took aim at Nuzzi’s journalistic integrity, airing alleged text-message exchanges, love poetry and recorded conversations meant to incriminate his ex.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Byers initially did not want to testify at all, believing his life to be in danger and fearing that he might incriminate himself.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2025
By contrast he wouldn't let them go hard after David Pecker, his buddy who also happens to have a box full of papers that Trump believes might incriminate him in god-only-knows-what.
From Salon ● May 31, 2024
“That is more difficult. The English, they do not stab. You are right there. I incline to the view that someone else dropped the pipe cleaner—and did so to incriminate the long-legged Englishman.”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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But the judge ruled that "far from exculpating her, it incriminates her or reinforces the correctness" of her conviction.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
While most of the trial has focused on Fotis Dulos, prosecutors say evidence also incriminates Troconis.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
And in forensic science, bias can subconsciously influence experts to interpret data in a way that incriminates a suspect.
From Science Magazine ● May 12, 2022
It’s not his maleness that incriminates him; it’s those two adjectives, so delicately damning — “lone, enraptured.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2020
Taken at its simplest, it is a clue which directly incriminates someone whose initial is H, and it was dropped there unwittingly by that person.”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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Kading, who wrote his own book on the case, has said for some time that Davis incriminated himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
As the investigation into the scandal grew, a string of athletes were incriminated, including British sprinter Dwain Chambers.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2025
It wasn’t until a full century later, in 1934, that mosquitoes were incriminated as potential vectors for the disease.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2024
He only gave evidence to the inquiry after considerable efforts were made to make him appear and had initially refused to answer questions or give evidence in case he incriminated himself.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2024
But I was determined not to participate in any way, for that would have surely, by implication, incriminated me in a network of guilt which I did not share.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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The vehicle’s registration turned out to be expired, Castronovo said, but the driver was allowed to leave without a citation after the officers searched his vehicle and found nothing incriminating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
“The Fourth Amendment requires a warrant to identify a particular account,” he says, “supported by probable cause that incriminating evidence exists in that account.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Passed in the wake of Watergate, when President Richard Nixon tried to keep incriminating materials from being made public, the law changed who legally owned the papers: It was now the American public.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026
It seems like prosecutors rushed through this plea agreement without knowing or caring that far more incriminating evidence was on the way.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
There was no way, at least that I could see, he could set me up without incriminating himself.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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