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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

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

The 49-year-old has vowed to implicate officials in the current government in the case.

From Barron's Mar. 20, 2026

It’s a petty and spiteful trick, designed to implicate Matthews, who will be onstage in the role of Richard Coyle during Our American Cousin.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

But this division also implicates the nongladiatorial Roman citizens of all social strata.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

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

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

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

When Mathipa was assigned the case, four months before his own death, he already knew special forces were implicated, but he was trying to secure more evidence.

From BBC Aug. 9, 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

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

“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

It said the investigators had "opted for the easy course by implicating a poor servant of the house and demonising him".

From BBC Nov. 25, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 19, 2025

Both workers also ended communication with health officials before the investigation was over, with one citing fear of losing employment for implicating dairy farms, according to the study.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 21, 2025

Though White had gathered circumstantial evidence implicating Hale in the murder of Roan, there were still huge holes in the case.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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