implicate
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“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
The 49-year-old has vowed to implicate officials in the current government in the case.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 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
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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“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
No evidence has been released that implicates Zelensky personally in graft or any other criminal activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 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
“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
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Becerra defended himself, pointing out that federal prosecutors never accused him of being involved and stated that none of the candidates for governor were implicated in scandal.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
Boeing acknowledged that anti-stall software was implicated in both accidents.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
"Peroxisomes are implicated in some human diseases and used in bioengineering," said Nathan Tharp, first author of the paper and a Rice graduate student.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
"It won't stop me voting, but I am definitely not voting for anybody implicated by the Epstein files," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
Still, Karl received five years of hard labor for reading the leaflets, and Rudi was given ten years, because he had implicated himself more during the interrogations.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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“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
Such a result could have an unraveling effect of potentially implicating many of OpenAI’s relationships and contracts with business partners, including Microsoft, which is one of its backers, experts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
They complained that taking a statement from Pycroft when he was still under the "shadow of prosecution for murder" meant he had a "powerful incentive" to give an account "implicating" Hutchinson and "exonerating himself".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2024
After all, if he had made such a mess out of his own life so far, what was the point of implicating others?
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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