as in accusing
to make a claim of wrongdoing against
scornfully declaring that he was not the only one to blame, he immediately began criminating a host of confederates
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Her accent alternates mid-sentence from city gal to snidely British, Ida loudly accusing a mob boss of murdering women.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2026 -
The United States had already sanctioned him years earlier under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, accusing him of facilitating narcotics shipments through Venezuela.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2026
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That reality makes the reports of measles inside a federal immigration detention facility in Texas not just alarming, but indicting.—
Krutika Kuppalli,
STAT,
4 Feb. 2026
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The lyrics went beyond Evers’ white-supremacist killer, indicting an entire system that brainwashed poor white Southerners into hatred.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
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The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office will be prosecuting the case.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
10 Mar. 2026
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The State Department revoked visas in July for members of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court, as well as their family members, who were involved in prosecuting former President Jair Bolsonaro and briefly banning Elon Musk's X in 2024.—
Shannon Bond,
NPR,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Criminating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/criminating. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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