implicate
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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
“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
He added that McCullagh's attempt to implicate an innocent third party - Natalie's ex-boyfriend - was another factor.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 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
Officials began to suspect that Myers was the sole killer and was desperately trying to implicate others to minimize his culpability.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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Prosecuting newsmen is a delicate proposition because it implicates a constitutional right.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
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
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The departures of these women isn’t because none of the administration’s men have been implicated in misconduct or corrupt dealings.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
UW-Madison said in a statement after the incident that its Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards would “investigate any students implicated in the incident according to its nonacademic misconduct policy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
If Booth talked, too, he might reveal valuable information that implicated the highest officials in the Confederacy.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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FBI spokesperson Ben Williamson said the agency had investigated claims against Collins years ago “and ultimately found nothing implicating Senator Collins or Senator Collins’ campaign.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
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
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
The risk of implicating ourselves in Katz’s death was too great.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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