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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Democrats and Republicans in the Minnesota House on Tuesday filed dueling ethics complaints against members of the opposite party, accusing them of breaking the chamber's rules for conduct.—
Caroline Cummings,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026 -
The Netherlands and Canada have brought a separate case against Syria at the United Nations’ top court, accusing Damascus of a yearslong campaign of torturing its own citizens.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Apr. 2026
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The central and longest section presents the Guru’s grievances against Aurangzeb in the style of a Sufi pir (spiritual guide) addressing a deviant murid (disciple), indicting the emperor for violating the oath and sanctioning the murder of Gobind Singh’s sons.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
9 Apr. 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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Xinis pointed out that the DOJ is prosecuting him in Tennessee on human smuggling charges.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
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While First Amendment protections for speech and press freedom have kept the federal government from prosecuting journalists with frequency, there is a long history of jailing journalists on contempt charges for refusing to name their anonymous sources.—
Joseph Konig,
PEOPLE,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Criminating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/criminating. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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