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implicate

[im-pli-keyt] / ˈɪm plɪˌkeɪt /


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But the governor's former chief of staff and a longtime California political operative, Dana Williamson, pleaded guilty to federal charges in May over a campaign finance fraud scheme that did not implicate Newsom.

From BBC Jun. 15, 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

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

“And implicate the rest of us? Himself, too?”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

“Once a right is established through state law,” Flores argues, “a deprivation of the right implicates federal procedural due process protection.”

From Slate Feb. 13, 2026

“If you’re in a community where everyone’s supposed to be taking care of you and you’re supposed to be taking care of them, if you have a problem, that implicates your whole group,” Hall said.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2025

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

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

In 2022, the FBI revealed that he had been implicated in the case again, through an alleged confession made by another Libyan who is facing trial in the United States.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

These implicated the U.S. in a plot to overthrow the Tanzanian government and generated anti-American press coverage across the continent.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

None of Booth’s conspirators knew it, but Booth had already implicated all of them!

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

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

From Barron's Aug. 31, 2026

“The visual graphic, which was widely circulated online, was mismatched with the table of results, thus implicating both of our formulas,” Bauer said.

From Salon Mar. 20, 2026

Mr. Fatafteh confessed to the crime and his DNA was found as implicating evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 19, 2025

They said there was no other evidence implicating Duran, and he had an alibi: He had been with his girlfriend and her mother.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 18, 2025

After implicating Joe, McCants was sentenced as an adult to four-and-one-half years and served just six months.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson




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