implicate
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He claimed the department sought to make an example of him because he refused to implicate his superiors in wrongdoing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
However, he first tried to get Matthew Chaskalson, the lawyer responsible for presenting evidence to the commission, removed for perceived bias, saying he was trying to get him to implicate another witness.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
The 49-year-old has vowed to implicate officials in the current government in the case.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
But Roberts, Gorsuch, and Barrett rejected this contention, particularly when those “affairs” implicate “the core congressional power of the purse.”
From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2026
It was easier to confess everything and implicate everybody.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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But this division also implicates the nongladiatorial Roman citizens of all social strata.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
“Once a right is established through state law,” Flores argues, “a deprivation of the right implicates federal procedural due process protection.”
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2026
Evidence that implicates White also implicates the key outstanding suspects.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
China rejected the accusation, and experts say that Palau has not presented any evidence that implicates Beijing.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
Booth also has left behind clues—among them a business card bearing the name J. Harrison Surratt and a letter from Samuel Arnold, who had been part of the kidnapping plot, that implicates Michael O’Laughlen.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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The regulatory agency continues to work with Taylor Farms to ensure “product implicated in this outbreak has been removed from the market,” the regulatory agency stated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Detection is really difficult, and most often the produce item being implicated has been consumed, and there is nothing left to test.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
The company has said that its food hasn’t been implicated in the latest outbreak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Last year, he was also implicated in a broader kickbacks-for-contracts case, along with Socialist Party number three Santos Cerdán.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
“So you do not think that she is likely to be implicated in this crime?”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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Mr. Fatafteh confessed to the crime and his DNA was found as implicating evidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
Both workers also ended communication with health officials before the investigation was over, with one citing fear of losing employment for implicating dairy farms, according to the study.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025
They complained that taking a statement from Pycroft when he was still under the "shadow of prosecution for murder" meant he had a "powerful incentive" to give an account "implicating" Hutchinson and "exonerating himself".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2024
Syed, whose conviction was vacated in 2022 after evidence implicating two other suspects was found to have been improperly withheld, had that vacancy overturned in March of last year by the state’s appellate court.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2024
After implicating Joe, McCants was sentenced as an adult to four-and-one-half years and served just six months.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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