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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 convicts
Lauren Del Valle, CNN Money, 13 Dec. 2025
White held off ruling on a defense motion to throw out the conspiracy charge until after Wenger’s trial, meaning that even if a jury convicts Wenger, the judge may overrule it.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
If the trial jury convicts Rodriguez, prosecutors will then have to prove that capital punishment is warranted, CNN reported.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 6 Aug. 2025
NPR, 22 Nov. 2025
As convicts were sent to the new Cummins and Tucker prison farms, the penitentiary mostly served as a receiving depot where convicts were initially processed.
—Arkansas Online, 22 Nov. 2025
Raskin said the information signals Maxwell either wants to be released from her prison sentence or is making recommendations about other federal convicts to the Justice Department.
—Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
Former convicts include Millie Bobby Brown and Margaret Qualley, who were both gifted the artist’s fluffy pink handcuffs while attending one of her shows.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 12 Oct. 2025
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
In March, 878 inmates held at Los Angeles County jail were felon convicts, according to a Sheriff’s Department report.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
In other states across the country, convicts were funnelled into a range of different facilities, but in Aragua the system was more centralized, and the main prison was Tocorón.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
In Massachusetts when a jury convicts a defendant of murder, the panel is also asked to determine the degree of murder even when someone like Walshe is only charged with murder in the first degree.
—Lauren Del Valle, CNN Money, 13 Dec. 2025
White held off ruling on a defense motion to throw out the conspiracy charge until after Wenger’s trial, meaning that even if a jury convicts Wenger, the judge may overrule it.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
If the trial jury convicts Rodriguez, prosecutors will then have to prove that capital punishment is warranted, CNN reported.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
Brazilian law requires that all convicts start their sentences in prison.
—NPR, 22 Nov. 2025
As convicts were sent to the new Cummins and Tucker prison farms, the penitentiary mostly served as a receiving depot where convicts were initially processed.
—Arkansas Online, 22 Nov. 2025
Raskin said the information signals Maxwell either wants to be released from her prison sentence or is making recommendations about other federal convicts to the Justice Department.
—Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
Former convicts include Millie Bobby Brown and Margaret Qualley, who were both gifted the artist’s fluffy pink handcuffs while attending one of her shows.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 12 Oct. 2025
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
In March, 878 inmates held at Los Angeles County jail were felon convicts, according to a Sheriff’s Department report.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
In other states across the country, convicts were funnelled into a range of different facilities, but in Aragua the system was more centralized, and the main prison was Tocorón.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for convicts
Verb
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Williams was able to petition for resentencing due to a law enacted in 2011 that allowed judges to give juvenile offenders with life without parole sentences a chance to be resentenced.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Hers is prose in which sentences judder and disintegrate and run over each other.—
Book Marks
August 28,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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But as of Saturday, only 11 people had been released, up from nine a day prior, according to Foro Penal, an advocacy group for prisoners based in Caracas.—
Regina Garcia Cano,
Fortune,
11 Jan. 2026
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Human rights organizations say only 11 prisoners have been released so far — less than 1% of the total.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
10 Jan. 2026
Verb
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By contrast, Eugenia condemns herself to a future of festering tension and fury.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
The Atlantic,
5 Jan. 2026
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The government condemns the reprehensible attack on innocent students and the killing of school officials who were carrying out their noble duty.—
Ashley Carnahan , Paul Tilsley,
FOXNews.com,
18 Nov. 2025
Noun
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For years on Maduro's watch, the Aragua jail operated under the control of its own inmates.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
10 Jan. 2026
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Under those agreements, local jails can hold inmates for up to 48 hours so ICE can take custody of undocumented individuals.—
Heather Hunter,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Hamas, which initially accepted the ceasefire text, now denounces the framework as an effort to turn an emergency pause into a permanent security order.—
Mohammed R. Mhawish,
New Yorker,
29 Dec. 2025
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One celebrates the beauty and moral uplift of the Sabbath; the other denounces the immorality of the godless in the fiery manner of a tent-revival preacher.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
22 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Where Rockwell observed, McNaughton indicts.—
Philip Martin,
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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Molière’s play indicts Orgon’s credulity and Tartuffe’s deceit equally.—
Henry Alford,
New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2025
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