implicated

past tense of implicate, archaic

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Recent Examples of implicated All five were interrogated for hours by detectives and ultimately implicated themselves. Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024 What's New A Brooklyn real estate developer implicated in a high-profile corruption investigation involving New York City Mayor Eric Adams is set to plead guilty to conspiracy charges, federal prosecutors said on Monday. Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024 His name was initially cleared but police returned their focus on him after his stepsister contacted authorities in 2008, telling them their mother allegedly implicated her son on her own deathbed. Sean Neumann, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024 The immune system is also implicated in some chronic diseases. Katia Hetter, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024 He was found guilty of corruption and influence peddling by both a Paris court in 2021 and an appeals court in 2023 for trying to bribe a magistrate in exchange for information about a legal case in which he was implicated. Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024 In the late ’80s, for example, he was implicated (and read the riot act by a court for his actions) in the goring and critical injury of a fellow outdoorsman, an event that cost Peter at least one of his oldest friends in Africa. Chris Wallace, Vogue, 17 Dec. 2024 Authorities said the same bacteria, and the same IV bags, were implicated in all the deaths. Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024 The party said authorities should immediately arrest Yoon and all others implicated in the case. Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2024

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“Implicated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/implicated. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.

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