implicate
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“To figure out where his power and money came from—they felt trying to answer that didn’t implicate them in his crimes.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
The 49-year-old has vowed to implicate officials in the current government in the case.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
The files do not implicate Clinton in any wrongdoing; he has not been accused of misconduct by Epstein's victims who have come forward so far, and there is no proof he knew of his crimes.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026
But Roberts, Gorsuch, and Barrett rejected this contention, particularly when those “affairs” implicate “the core congressional power of the purse.”
From Slate • Feb. 20, 2026
Very occasionally some persons whom you had believed dead long since would make a ghostly reappearance at some public trial where he would implicate hundreds of others by his testimony before vanishing, this time forever.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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