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
Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Dmitriy Kurashov, 27, was convicted by a court in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia for shooting dead a Ukrainian soldier who had just surrendered to his unit.
—Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Inevitably, Burgess said, after the battery of lawyers have disappeared and the camera lights have faded, the reality of life in prison sets in for many convicts.
—Ian Berry, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
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Verb
An all-white jury deliberated for 10 minutes before convicting George Stinney of murder, and the judge promptly sentenced the 14-year-old to death.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Dmitriy Kurashov, 27, was convicted by a court in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia for shooting dead a Ukrainian soldier who had just surrendered to his unit.
—Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
Nester is one of Utah’s leading defense lawyers and worked for the Obama administration on an advisory board for convicts seeking clemency.
—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Inevitably, Burgess said, after the battery of lawyers have disappeared and the camera lights have faded, the reality of life in prison sets in for many convicts.
—Ian Berry, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convict
Verb
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Al Jazeera has repeatedly denied those accusations and condemned its closure in Israel.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
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Prescott was troubled by the significant differences in tone, headlines and emphasis when covering the war, and condemned the BBC for allegedly misreporting the proportion of Palestinian women and children killed by Israeli military actions.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Among the Continental soldiers taken prisoner at the Battle of Trois-Rivières in Quebec in 1776, for instance, eighty-nine of two hundred told their redcoat captors they had been born overseas.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Another, Alfateh Abdullah Idris, who goes by the nickname Abu Lulu, casually begins firing a Kalashnikov rifle down the row of prisoners.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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After being convicted of tampering with an electronic monitoring device in 2021, Klingler was sentenced to 8 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections and 12 months of post-release supervision.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
11 Nov. 2025
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Nichols, 64, was sentenced to death for the 1988 rape and murder of 21-year-old Karen Pulley in Chattanooga.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
11 Nov. 2025
Noun
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After the 2025 playoffs are over, there should be a better understanding whether the pros outweighed the cons with the new playoff brackets.—
Cecil Joyce,
Nashville Tennessean,
11 Nov. 2025
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Roosevelt let newspaper editorials hash out the pros and cons of the voyage before making an official announcement, and the leak represented the first time congressmen (and the public) heard about the fleet’s plans to circumnavigate the globe.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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She was indicted in 2019, when Americans controlled the federal government.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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Dugan was indicted that same day.—
John Diedrich,
jsonline.com,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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He wasn't listed on the Pulaski County jail's online inmate roster as of Wednesday evening.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Nov. 2025
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The inmates were offered cheese pizza or navy beans.—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
5 Nov. 2025
Verb
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But in a shocker move in September 1983, Joe Strummer kicked guitarist Mick Jones out of the band, denouncing his former mate as a rock-star sellout.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
9 Nov. 2025
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Anger and apology Bosch, who was crowned Miss Universe Mexico earlier this year, denounced Nawat for insulting her.—
Anabella González,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
Verb
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More than a month after one of its professors was arrested on charges of violent felonies at an anti-ICE rally, an elite private university has refused to say whether the academic has been punished.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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The National Lunch Company terminated her employment — which was a common practice used by the white power structure in the South to punish civil rights activists.—
Time,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Convict.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convict. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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