indict
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Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the U.S. began to indict Russian oligarchs and seize yachts and other assets.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
B'Tselem described the decision to indict Levy as the "exception that proves the rule".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
We have this almost innate sense of: Well, if they indict someone, that person probably did something pretty bad.
From Slate ● May 22, 2026
The judge accused prosecutors of impropriety with the grand jury, which initially declined to indict the group that became known as the Broadview Six.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
In other words, the grand jury had decided not to indict the officers.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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In “Violent Saviors” Mr. Easterly indicts an idea he calls “the Development Right of Conquest”—quite the mouthful—which “confers the right to conquer lands on those who bring material progress to these lands.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
“It’ll actually be interesting to see if a grand jury indicts these cases.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025
Former federal officers may do so when a state indicts them for actions that were within their official duties and they have a “colorable” defense under federal law.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2023
Interview by interview, what at first appears to be a murder mystery unravels into a story of class, intrigue and small-town social mobility that ultimately indicts the entire community.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
I'll see that Norton tries the case; that a grand jury indicts Casey.
From Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts by Louis J. (Louis John) Stellman
While they mention — almost in passing — that it’s the “same courthouse where Paxton would later be indicted for investment fraud,” the focus is on the pen.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Staley: “I believe once in 2006 when Epstein was indicted, and I believe once in 2008 when Epstein went to jail.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
While U.S. authorities have bought charges against ex-Mexican governors and other former high-ranking officials, the case against Rocha Moya marked the first time that a sitting Mexican governor has been indicted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Lodge and six other co-conspirators who had no connection to Harvard were all indicted and pleaded guilty in 2025.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
For the thirty-eight riot deaths, twenty-one people were indicted, seventeen black, four white.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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The hit man’s quest to track down nursing mothers lends “Your Mother” a peculiar but propulsive forward momentum while neatly indicting the macho stereotypes that usually accompany such action movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Richarlison, who saw a deadline day move to Everton breakdown, is understood to be exploring his options with sources indicting the 29-year-old is keen to be released from the remainder of his deal.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Britannia rules the waves” encapsulated Great Britain’s command of the seas in a bygone era, but it’s now an empty slogan indicting the British navy’s decline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
But the track’s harshest beatdown is reserved for a final verse indicting the music industry’s silence.
From Salon ● May 8, 2024
In the United States all the Citizens have the Right of indicting the public Functionaries before the ordinary Tribunals.—How they use this Right.—Art.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville
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