as in to condemn
to find or pronounce guilty
an accused person is presumed innocent until convicted in a court of law
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Recent Examples of convict
Ricardo Brito, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
The ruling makes Bolsonaro the country’s first former leader to be convicted for trying to undermine democracy.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Arkansas Online, 21 Aug. 2025
He and four other long-term prisoners were freed because state attorneys whose offices originally convicted them now have conviction review units to hear pleas from convicts who had exhausted their appeals in the courts.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
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Verb
The presumptive ruling by a majority of a panel of five justices in Brazil's Supreme Court makes Bolsonaro the first former president in the country's history to be convicted for attacking democracy.
—Ricardo Brito, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
The ruling makes Bolsonaro the country’s first former leader to be convicted for trying to undermine democracy.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
While the death penalty is legal in Arkansas, no one has been sentenced to death since 2018, and the state hasn't executed anyone since 2017, when state officials used lethal injections to execute four convicts within the period of a week just before the drugs used expired.
—Arkansas Online, 21 Aug. 2025
He and four other long-term prisoners were freed because state attorneys whose offices originally convicted them now have conviction review units to hear pleas from convicts who had exhausted their appeals in the courts.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convict
Verb
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International organizations swiftly condemned the lethal crackdown by police and called for an independent investigation.—
Sugam Pokharel,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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The United Kingdom and France condemned Israel's strikes in Doha in separate statements.—
Nadine El-Bawab,
ABC News,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Every trip to the electric chair is horrifying; a sequence where an intentionally botched execution ignites a still-living prisoner's screaming head in ghoulish blue flames is up there with any supernatural fright King's ever conceived.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Belarus' state news agency Belta said the prisoners freed on Thursday included 14 foreign nationals from Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, France, Britain and Germany.—
Andrius Sytas,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Borgwardt, who could not be reached for comment for this report, pleaded no contest last month to obstructing an officer and was sentenced to 89 days in jail.—
Jared Kofsky,
ABC News,
10 Sep. 2025
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Brown pleaded guilty to robbery with a dangerous weapon in February 2015 and was sentenced to a minimum of six years and one month and a maximum of eight years and four months in prison.—
Julia Coin,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Those logical advantages for the pros column can outweigh some of those in the cons column, such as the perception of new sources of stress.—
Elizabeth Baskin,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Tatum does stretch his acting abilities in scenes where Jeffrey’s con-man charisma is underlaid with desperation and deception, but there’s nothing in Cianfrance and Kirt Gunn’s screenplay to seriously challenge Tatum’s persona as a leading man.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Two months after Mendoza’s arrest, he was released after a grand jury chose not to indict him.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
13 Sep. 2025
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At trial Dever accused Jackson of threatening to indict her for perjury.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Except for nearly the 133,000 inmates and their families and loved ones none of these places have been obscured.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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An Arizona inmate tricked court officials into releasing him more than two decades early by filing fake orders allegedly dismissing his charges.—
Suzanne Nuyen,
NPR,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Hoffman, the lawmaker who was shot and wounded in June, and his family also issued a statement denouncing Kirk’s death.—
Mark Vancleave,
Twin Cities,
13 Sep. 2025
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Online posts, including one shared by the Idaho Freedom Foundation, a far-right think tank, denounced Berriochoa and prompted calls to the Department of Labor and even former employers and educators of Berriochoa.—
Shannon Tyler,
Idaho Statesman,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The city of Grants Pass, Oregon, had punished people using camping paraphernalia like blankets or pillows while sleeping outside.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
11 Sep. 2025
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But even this nod to forgiveness is relatively punishing, since the health refill freezes your character in a defenseless pose for a few seconds.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Convict.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convict. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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