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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

Although many people with security clearances are government employees, millions of private citizens also need clearances to work on military matters or to represent criminal defendants charged with crimes that implicate sensitive information.

From Slate ● May 15, 2026

Messrs. Curtin and Burgess implicate an entire influential field of literature projecting future climate damages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

White would need to tie up these loose ends, but at last a witness had emerged who could directly implicate Hale in the plot.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

California has similarly argued that its law requiring social-media companies to disclose how they moderate content—including how they define hate speech, disinformation and extremism—is constitutional because it implicates commercial speech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025

“That implicates the 1st Amendment rights of adults who may not want to have their driver’s license uploaded to this site that relates to gay and bisexual relationships.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2025

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

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2024

Crucially, it further implicates the outstanding suspects and opens up evidential opportunities.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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

“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

"They are currently working to identify whether any part of this implicated lot is available in commerce or in consumers homes."

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

The company has said that its food hasn’t been implicated in the latest outbreak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

Boeing has acknowledged that its anti-stall software was implicated in both fatal crashes.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

Briony was more than implicated in this union.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

Such a result could have an unraveling effect of potentially implicating many of OpenAI’s relationships and contracts with business partners, including Microsoft, which is one of its backers, experts said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025

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

He was in the public dock, confessing everything, implicating everybody.

From "1984" by George Orwell