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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

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

I would not implicate Papa, since Father Amadi obviously disagreed.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was not as somber an occasion as Tobias’s and my interrogation, partly because there was no suspicious video footage implicating Zeke, and partly because Zeke is funny even when under truth serum.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth