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Driving past a crime scene shouldn’t implicate the person in the crime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

“For the first time in this litigation, the government argues that civil detention ‘does not implicate any fundamental rights’ and so the Due Process Clause affords the detained men no protections—substantive or procedural,” they wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 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

Colorado argued that its statute does not meaningfully implicate the First Amendment because it regulates conduct and only incidentally burdens speech.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026

I would not implicate Papa, since Father Amadi obviously disagreed.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

No evidence has been released that implicates Zelensky personally in graft or any other criminal activity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

Evidence that implicates White also implicates the key outstanding suspects.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025

“Here There Are Blueberries” implicates the present and the future as much as it does the past.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025

Nothing about Smith’s conduct implicates either the DOJ policy or the 60-day rule.

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 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

For Roberts and the three liberal justices, that consequence implicated the separation of powers itself.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

The company has been implicated in several wildfires, including the 2018 Camp Fire that destroyed the town of Paradise, Calif., in a rural area about 90 miles north of Sacramento.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

This brain structure has been historically implicated in emotional regulation.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

When Mathipa was assigned the case, four months before his own death, he already knew special forces were implicated, but he was trying to secure more evidence.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

And either way, I didn’t want to be implicated.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

Sanft said there was no evidence implicating Davis in Shakur's murder other than his own statements.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

She created confessions about herself to try to avoid torture, based on spy plots and her captors' "quite insane worldview", while not implicating any Iraqis.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

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

It was not as somber an occasion as Tobias’s and my interrogation, partly because there was no suspicious video footage implicating Zeke, and partly because Zeke is funny even when under truth serum.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth