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Roughly 173,000 documents released Tuesday, and additional ones which will be published online in waves over the next 12 months, could implicate two former New York mayors.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

“From what I know of my dad, there’s no train of logic to follow that would implicate him in this potential federal investigation,” she told CNN.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

Even if the deputies didn’t believe their convenient account, even if Toby wouldn’t say a word to implicate Luke, it didn’t matter.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

But this division also implicates the nongladiatorial Roman citizens of all social strata.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

It implicates Senussi, Masud and the two Libyans who faced trial over Lockerbie at a Scottish Court in the Netherlands more than 20 years ago.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 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

Knight from 1977, the court ruled that the denial of a press pass implicated a First Amendment liberty interest.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

“There is a theoretically plausible benefit in that the vaccine does target IL-6, and IL-6 is implicated in heart disease, in the greater likelihood of having heart-disease events,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

"The individuals implicated in these case studies are working scientists. We do not assert that they intended harm, and identifying them or their labs could expose them to harm," the report said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

In time, an amusing detective story emerges after Harry is implicated in the disappearance of a co-worker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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

Walters’ supporters further argue that Oxford’s statements implicating Walters—as well as Travis’ testimony against him—were tainted, the result of the men being coerced by police and angling for lighter sentences.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

In his closing argument, defense attorney Brian Steel painted Hester, Jones and Grant as unreliable “snitches, cooperators, rats” seeking to secure a lighter sentence by implicating Banks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Whether that’s a criminal act may be difficult to prove in court, but why would the justice want to risk implicating himself in the future?

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

From "1984" by George Orwell