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indict

[in-dahyt] / ɪnˈdaɪt /


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A veteran national-security prosecutor working on that line of inquiry, Maria Medetis Long, soon told senior officials that she hadn’t found a basis to indict Brennan, some of the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the U.S. began to indict Russian oligarchs and seize yachts and other assets.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

But this changed two years ago when customary law was struck out, he explained, giving "a new regime to indict anyone taking part in the marriage of someone below the age of 18".

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

We have this almost innate sense of: Well, if they indict someone, that person probably did something pretty bad.

From Slate ● May 22, 2026

In other words, the grand jury had decided not to indict the officers.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

In “Violent Saviors” Mr. Easterly indicts an idea he calls “the Development Right of Conquest”—quite the mouthful—which “confers the right to conquer lands on those who bring material progress to these lands.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

Former federal officers may do so when a state indicts them for actions that were within their official duties and they have a “colorable” defense under federal law.

From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2023

In Georgia and in the federal system, a grand jury that indicts people cannot force the testimony of a target.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023

Shortly before a grand jury in New York State indicts somebody, the person typically gets a chance to testify to the jury.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2023

Dr Maxwell indicts the Cambridge way of controlling the medium, which he says consisted, for a time at least, in affording the medium opportunities to cheat to see if she would avail herself of them.

From Occultism and Common-Sense by Beckles Willson

Following that report, two former company directors have been indicted and are due to stand trial in Cyprus next month over €25m in unpaid VAT.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The two became friends and started dating about six months later, just weeks before she was indicted on federal fraud charges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

On Monday the Wall Street Journal reported that only days after being indicted for embezzlement, a fugitive donated $25,000 to the attorney general.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

The two fugitives at the Dubai event had been both indicted in federal court in Illinois in 2024 on charges that they embezzled $15 million from a Chicago hospital where Ahmed was CFO.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

For the thirty-eight riot deaths, twenty-one people were indicted, seventeen black, four white.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

The hit man’s quest to track down nursing mothers lends “Your Mother” a peculiar but propulsive forward momentum while neatly indicting the macho stereotypes that usually accompany such action movies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Police in Texas investigated Lucy's death as possible manslaughter but a grand jury in Collin County decided against indicting her father.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

The U.S. has tried to rein in the trade, indicting some individuals and expanding the sanctions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

Prosecutors announcing at the outset of a case who they're indicting, the charges being brought and why is "fine," he explained.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2024

Is it we who are indicting and arresting, or gleaning or depredating?

From Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac


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