as in weaves
to cause to twine about one another
the implicated vines did form a most restful garden bower
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Recent Examples of implicates
The case also implicates broader battles over independence within the federal bureaucracy.
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Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
The film opens with Ash facilitating the stealth exchange of sensitive documents between a man named Hoffman (played by Matthew Maher) and an executive (Victor Garber) at his former place of work, Optimo Pharmaceutical, that implicates the company in fraud.
—EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
As a leading English-language news platform, choosing to omit this story from the front pages of your publication implicates you in the mass deaths of Palestinians in Gaza, who are now entering their 22nd month of unrelenting attacks.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
The incarcerated penguin thief finds a way to reprogram Wallace's robotic garden gnome and send it on a crime spree that implicates the oddball inventor.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
The trial also implicates 11 other defendants, including former ministers and intermediaries accused of facilitating illicit financial transactions.
—Natalie Venegas, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
Unlike the 2nd Amendment case heard by the Hawaii Supreme Court, the Honolulu case implicates significant federal concerns; permitting the case to proceed under state law would effectively allow Honolulu to regulate emissions and conduct across in every other state in the country.
—David Blackmon, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
What starts as something broad and comedic soon morphs into a much more disturbing tableau — a piece of violent misogyny that implicates a culture of toxic masculinity, class elitism and even the audience itself.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
That process negatively impacts the Amazon sellers being used in the scheme, but also implicates unwitting consumers, the plaintiffs argued.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2024
Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
The film opens with Ash facilitating the stealth exchange of sensitive documents between a man named Hoffman (played by Matthew Maher) and an executive (Victor Garber) at his former place of work, Optimo Pharmaceutical, that implicates the company in fraud.
—EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
As a leading English-language news platform, choosing to omit this story from the front pages of your publication implicates you in the mass deaths of Palestinians in Gaza, who are now entering their 22nd month of unrelenting attacks.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
The incarcerated penguin thief finds a way to reprogram Wallace's robotic garden gnome and send it on a crime spree that implicates the oddball inventor.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
The trial also implicates 11 other defendants, including former ministers and intermediaries accused of facilitating illicit financial transactions.
—Natalie Venegas, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
Unlike the 2nd Amendment case heard by the Hawaii Supreme Court, the Honolulu case implicates significant federal concerns; permitting the case to proceed under state law would effectively allow Honolulu to regulate emissions and conduct across in every other state in the country.
—David Blackmon, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
What starts as something broad and comedic soon morphs into a much more disturbing tableau — a piece of violent misogyny that implicates a culture of toxic masculinity, class elitism and even the audience itself.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
That process negatively impacts the Amazon sellers being used in the scheme, but also implicates unwitting consumers, the plaintiffs argued.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for implicates
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Old Hickory Lake, part of the Cumberland River, weaves through Hendersonville.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Oct. 2025
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The charcoal drawing Anoma Kole Kole, 2023–24, for instance, skillfully weaves a blueprint of colonial infrastructure with images of the Africans who built transit systems.—
Edna Bonhomme,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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The novel intertwines present-day events with painful memories of the lives of her parents, who tried to protect their love from war, jealousy, and the cruelty of the merciless Soviet government.—
Nelly Klos
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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In figuring out how that intertwines with Vera’s character, for Laila to then have that superpower at the end is really cool.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Implicates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/implicates. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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