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implicate

[im-pli-keyt] / ˈɪm plɪˌkeɪt /


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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

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

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

Meanwhile, the Gestapo searched Hans’s apartment and found evidence to implicate the others.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

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

“That implicates the 1st Amendment rights of adults who may not want to have their driver’s license uploaded to this site that relates to gay and bisexual relationships.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 22, 2025

China rejected the accusation, and experts say that Palau has not presented any evidence that implicates Beijing.

From New York Times Jun. 2, 2024

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

Wildlife intervention involves actions to tackle the maintenance and spread of bTB in badgers, which are implicated in the spread of the disease.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

The CJP has set up a legal fund to help meet the expenses of protesters implicated in criminal cases by the police, Saurav Das, another spokesperson for the youth-led movement, said.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

“Detection is really difficult, and most often the produce item being implicated has been consumed, and there is nothing left to test.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

The company has said that its food hasn’t been implicated in the latest outbreak.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

Nor could dispensers of government patronage merely weigh scientific projects against one another: the cost of high-energy physics had become so great that broader priorities were implicated.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

She created confessions about herself to try to avoid torture, based on spy plots and her captors' "quite insane worldview", while not implicating any Iraqis.

From BBC Dec. 2, 2025

Mr. Fatafteh confessed to the crime and his DNA was found as implicating evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 19, 2025

They said there was no other evidence implicating Duran, and he had an alibi: He’d been with his girlfriend and her mother.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 4, 2024

Syed, whose conviction was vacated in 2022 after evidence implicating two other suspects was found to have been improperly withheld, had that vacancy overturned in March of last year by the state’s appellate court.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2024

They were hiding the room for themselves and, in the process, implicating me in the biggest heist of all time.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys




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