as in condemning
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 convicting
Ten jurors were set to enter a not-guilty verdict for 29-year-old Rinderknecht, while two others were set on convicting him.
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Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
26 June 2026
Jurors had the option of convicting Biron-Bomis on the lesser charge of second-degree murder, but entered a guilty finding on the more serious count.
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Clifford Ward,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2026
An appeals court in April sentenced Yoon’s wife, Kim Keon Hee, to four years in prison after convicting her on various charges, including receiving luxury gifts from a Unification Church official.
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ABC News,
24 June 2026
The court said jurors received instructions from the trial judge that could have improperly swayed them toward convicting him.
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Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
The jury deliberated for less than three hours before convicting Anthony on Tuesday, and later sentenced him to 35 years in prison.
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Jonah Kaplan,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
Cassidy’s vote in favor of convicting the president after his 2021 impeachment has shadowed him since.
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Thomas Beaumont,
Fortune,
17 May 2026
Charged with reckless manslaughter, Longet was the center of a headline-making trial, with a jury eventually convicting her of criminally negligent homicide in January 1977.
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Greg Evans,
Deadline,
14 May 2026
Jurors deliberated for about three hours before convicting him on two counts of murder and two counts of using a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.
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Bill Chappell,
NPR,
13 May 2026
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
26 June 2026
Jurors had the option of convicting Biron-Bomis on the lesser charge of second-degree murder, but entered a guilty finding on the more serious count.
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Clifford Ward,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2026
An appeals court in April sentenced Yoon’s wife, Kim Keon Hee, to four years in prison after convicting her on various charges, including receiving luxury gifts from a Unification Church official.
—
ABC News,
24 June 2026
The court said jurors received instructions from the trial judge that could have improperly swayed them toward convicting him.
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Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
The jury deliberated for less than three hours before convicting Anthony on Tuesday, and later sentenced him to 35 years in prison.
—
Jonah Kaplan,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
Cassidy’s vote in favor of convicting the president after his 2021 impeachment has shadowed him since.
—
Thomas Beaumont,
Fortune,
17 May 2026
Charged with reckless manslaughter, Longet was the center of a headline-making trial, with a jury eventually convicting her of criminally negligent homicide in January 1977.
—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
14 May 2026
Jurors deliberated for about three hours before convicting him on two counts of murder and two counts of using a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.
—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
13 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for convicting
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Lot is often described in the Qurʾān, and in subsequent interpretive traditions, in the role of condemning the men of Sodom for lusting after men rather than women.
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Officials in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) also came out with statements on Saturday condemning Iran.
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Now Washington has sharply escalated tensions by indicting the 94-year-old former Cuban president, Raúl Castro (brother of Fidel).
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Natalie Neysa Alund Cuba's President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez fired back at the Justice Department for indicting Castro on Wednesday, saying the country acted in self defense in the more than three-decade-old killings.
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During Democratic presidencies, which the DSA mostly spends denouncing the occupant of the Oval Office as a sellout, Democratic loyalists have less patience for factional complaints.
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The crisis that healthcare professionals on and off the island have been denouncing for years has mobilized nonprofit health organizations in Miami, which are preparing to act immediately in the event sociopolitical change comes to the island.
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Wednesday is sentencing day for Rex Heuermann, long the suspect in the Gilgo Beach serial killer case that has loomed over Long Island for more than three decades.
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This week, a jury in McKinney, Texas convicted 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony of murder, sentencing him to 35 years in prison for the killing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a track meet in April 2025.
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Videos circulating on social media over the weekend showed residents confronting military personnel, accusing them of standing by while civilians carried out rescue operations with little official assistance.
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Carroll sued Trump shortly thereafter, accusing him of defamation.
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Americans across the nation are being asked (or ordered) to conserve water, thanks to widespread drought made even worse by a punishing heat wave.
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What Argentina don’t do particularly proficiently, for all their strengths, is offer a serious threat on the counter-attack, punishing opponents for pushing forward.
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