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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
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
He added that McCullagh's attempt to implicate an innocent third party - Natalie's ex-boyfriend - was another factor.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 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
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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
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
Nothing about Smith’s conduct implicates either the DOJ policy or the 60-day rule.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2024
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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However, Juve, AC Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio and Reggina were all implicated in influencing referees.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Knight from 1977, the court ruled that the denial of a press pass implicated a First Amendment liberty interest.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
Amnesty urged the UN General Assembly to "create an international criminal justice mechanism aimed at prosecuting those most implicated".
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 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
Almost all of the sons of the founders were implicated, although none of them knew concretely what action they were plotting.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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
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
It said the investigators had "opted for the easy course by implicating a poor servant of the house and demonising him".
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
Though White had gathered circumstantial evidence implicating Hale in the murder of Roan, there were still huge holes in the case.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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