How to Use implicate in a Sentence

implicate

verb
Definition of implicatenext
Synonyms for implicatenext
  • His business partner was implicated in the theft.
  • Soros wasn’t the first in line to implicate Xi as the source of China’s problems.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Berhan is the first of those implicated to be sentenced to prison.
    — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
  • DeSnake, by contrast, makes the very bold claim that his work PC could not implicate him even if seized.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Your publisher's lawyer will read it and make sure there's nothing in the book that could implicate you to the point where you get sued.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 July 2024
  • Trump was not charged, though Cohen, who pleaded guilty and went to prison, implicated Trump in the scheme.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Trump was not charged in that case, but Cohen — who pleaded guilty and spent three years in prison — implicated him in the scheme.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Things took a turn for the worse when Fez's friend Custer wore a wire in hopes of getting one of the brothers to implicate themselves in a murder.
    — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 7 June 2022
  • Fulmer retired around the same time, but was not implicated in any of the rule-breaking.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 24 Aug. 2023
  • This phone was later connected to some of the hacks in which he was implicated.
    — Time, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Weidman said Hildebrant went so far as to fake an email in his name to implicate him.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Soon after, he was linked to a double murder and implicated in a few more.
    — Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Fish instead has upped the ante to implicate Curly more directly.
    — Dallas News, 16 June 2022
  • But the fact is, climate change is implicated at least to some extent in all of these disasters.
    — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 13 July 2023
  • The type of bacteria that has been implicated in this outbreak is E. coli O157:H7.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The hacker is implicated in a number of breaches, with many of them targeting the FBI.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Once again, the loss of estrogen with menopause is implicated.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Well, 18 June 2024
  • All members of the axis have taken part in the war in Gaza, and all are, consequently, implicated in the eyes of Israel and the United States.
    — Narges Bajoghli, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2024
  • In fact, the letter could further implicate Trump in a potential crime.
    — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Alice was aiding Aaron in a case that implicated her boss and she was poised to hand over documents.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 8 May 2024
  • An Ohio teen implicated in a string of threatening calls to area high schools was charged as an adult Thursday in Lake County.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • McCarthy has a knack for describing the very worst human behavior in a way that implicates us all.
    — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
  • But the data implicating Alus was too compelling to ignore.
    — Annie Melchor, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The production is designed to involve, and to implicate, the audience.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Trump hasn’t been charged in the case and, according to a person familiar with the matter, Weisselberg won’t implicate his boss as part of his plea.
    — Fortune, 18 Aug. 2022
  • These can represent the windows and walls that killed the animals, but also implicate the viewer.
    — Washington Post, 6 July 2021
  • But in 2018, he was implicated in a homicide once again, this time for a prison stabbing that had repercussions throughout the state’s prison system.
    — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The witness identified Goodale as making statements that implicate both Goodale and Miller by name.
    — David Pitt, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Of the 48 candidates implicated in the scandal, 28 lost their parliament races.
    — Takehiko Kambayashi, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2024
  • But court records say that just 48 hours after the homicide, Oakland police received an anonymous call implicating Neal, and provided Neal’s phone number.
    — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024

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