Thesaurus results for ALLEGATION

allegation

noun

as in accusation

a statement saying that someone has done something wrong or illegal The police are investigating allegations that the mayor has accepted bribes. The mayor denies the allegations against him.

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Recent Examples of allegation If that effort fails, prosecutors could seek to retry Garcia Torres on the murder charge, but they would not be allowed to rely on the prior kidnapping allegations or theories of willful, deliberate and premeditated murder, according to the ruling. —

Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2026 Huge nationwide demonstrations erupted in 2009 over allegations of vote-rigging. —

Dallas Morning News, 28 Feb. 2026 Landis, the son of filmmaker John Landis, was dropped by his representatives amid the allegations, though charges were never filed. —

Angelique Jackson, Variety, 27 Feb. 2026 His management company Writ Large dropped him in June 2019 amid the allegations. —

Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for allegation

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The accusations come after Anthropic’s rival OpenAI made similar allegations earlier this month that DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies are illegally distilling its ChatGPT models over the past year, in a memo sent to the US House Select Committee on China.

— John Liu, CNN Money, 24 Feb. 2026
The accusations included that the U of I professor had a romantic relationship with one of the four victims and ordered their deaths to prevent the affair with a female student from becoming public.

— Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 23 Feb. 2026