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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

This means there could be "no grounds justifying the decision not to indict Mr Abdalmasih Hanoun".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 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

Second, it turns out that the grand jury originally refused to indict the Broadview Six, and instead came back with what’s called a “no true bill.”

From Slate ● May 22, 2026

Ms. Ofrah said they would be leading protests around the city if the grand jury didn’t indict.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

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

With his compassionate humor, Chekhov neither indicts his characters nor lets them off the hook for their myopic concerns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2022

May 7 — Federal grand jury indicts Chauvin, Lane, Kueng and Thao on civil rights charges.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2022

How does it feel for you personally seeing this, as you say, unprecedented federal trial that basically indicts the entire music industry?

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2021

In wisdom and in mercy heaven indicts, Like a wise leech, its painful remedies.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827 by Various

More recently, The Wall Street Journal reported that Paxton spent New Year's Eve in Dubai with two American businessmen indicted over alleged healthcare fraud.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Nikola Corp.’s former CEO was indicted for fraud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

The paper also reported that Paxton rang in 2025 at a New Year’s party in Dubai attended by two men federal prosecutors had indicted for allegedly embezzling millions from an Illinois hospital.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

Among those at the event with Texas’ top law-enforcement official were two Americans who had been indicted months before on federal healthcare-fraud charges but failed to return to the U.S.,

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

In 1947, GM and a number of its allies in the scheme were indicted on federal antitrust charges.

From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser

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 Justice Department made the charges public last December—a rare case of indicting a foreign military official for abuse of a U.S. citizen abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

But the track’s harshest beatdown is reserved for a final verse indicting the music industry’s silence.

From Salon ● May 8, 2024

Had this Honorable Court been then in existence I suppose it would have talked of indicting the jurors for "perjury," and would doubtless have had its labor for its pains.

From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker


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