IMPLICATED Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

implicated

verb

past tense of implicate, archaic

as in twisted

to cause to twine about one another the implicated vines did form a most restful garden bower

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Recent Examples of implicated The operation began around 2018, when Noreus agreed to provide fraudulent credentials to nursing students recruited through Medlife Institute, another school implicated in the federal investigation, according to prosecutors. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026 More than two dozen nursing license applicants in Maryland were implicated. — Danielle J. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2026 In Thursday’s ruling, the court found that filmmakers explicitly told viewers that Schneider wasn’t implicated in the abuse. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2026 Voters who prize the observational and the sincere tend to bristle at a movie where the filmmaker is this present and this implicated. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026 Stevens allowed the case to proceed, noting there were multiple inferences to draw from the evidence and that one interpretation implicated Perillo. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2026 The money was never allocated and no one in the organization has been implicated in wrongdoing. — Esme Murphy, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2026 Afterward, Gerry and Chad meet up at a local movie theater, where Gerry gives Chad an ultimatum, which the latter decides to keep secret from both Ricky and Danny to protect them and stop them from being implicated further. — Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2026 Even presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, who has also been implicated in the Banco Master scandal for receiving about $21 million to fund a film on his father's life, came out to urge the Supreme Court justice to leave his position. — ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026

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Alvarez twisted his right ankle Thursday and was out of the lineup Friday, but his issue is not believed to be serious.

— Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Slicing across the pavement, the aircraft struck several vehicles – including one left flipped onto its side and twisted into an arc not unlike the tail fin logo – before sliding to a fiery stop just shy of a parking lot filled with dozens of cars.

— Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of twisted

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The ancestors of the Bermuda powwow attendees were part of this buried and intertwined history.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
Trump’s tariff-slinging made companies less, not more, likely to put their faith in a North American supply chain, which is inextricably intertwined across a number of industries.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of intertwined

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The Jayhawks mixed their straight rushes with blitzes for their fast, experienced defense.

— PJ Green September 8, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026
However, Marks does offer GHK-Cu both as a serum and cream and occasionally as an injection, usually mixed with other peptides aimed at tissue repair and inflammation.

— Will Stone, NPR, 7 Sep. 2026

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Another is challah, bread that is usually braided and typically eaten on ceremonial occasions, which is served as a round loaf at Rosh Hashanah.

— Kathryn Gregory, Louisville Courier Journal, 7 Sep. 2026
And weighty ropes—the sort that might be used to moor a boat—are braided with chains and arranged on the ground in the form of a curving river.

— Carolina A. Miranda, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of braided

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The partnership between two outsiders clawing their way in, joined by an equally canny journalist played by Claire Foy, comes to shape Fleet Street, the London thoroughfare where scribblers plied their trade, in Lamb’s and Murdoch’s images.

— Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
The lakes are medieval peat diggings that were flooded by rising seas in the 14th century, and long plied by cargo boats known as wherries.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of plied

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When Fitzpatrick’s family does join him on the road, the NFL vet can’t help but marvel at how his personal and professional lives have blended seamlessly.

— Jaclyn Hendricks, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
Popular music from the 1960s blended the Khmer heritage of courtly performing arts with French cabaret songs, brass music, and bossa nova introduced by way of the Philippines.

— H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 15 Sep. 2026

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