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
Although many people with security clearances are government employees, millions of private citizens also need clearances to work on military matters or to represent criminal defendants charged with crimes that implicate sensitive information.
From Slate ● May 15, 2026
“From what I know of my dad, there’s no train of logic to follow that would implicate him in this potential federal investigation,” she told CNN.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 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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“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
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
Crucially, it further implicates the outstanding suspects and opens up evidential opportunities.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
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
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In 2022, the FBI revealed that he had been implicated in the case again, through an alleged confession made by another Libyan who is facing trial in the United States.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Heads of state, billionaires, royalty, global celebrities and other high-profile people were exposed and implicated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
This brain structure has been historically implicated in emotional regulation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 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
His alibi—that he was with another woman—checked out, and it became clear that the forger who had implicated Brown had fabricated his story hoping to bargain with prosecutors for better prison conditions.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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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 had been with his girlfriend and her mother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
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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