as in weaving
to cause to twine about one another
the implicated vines did form a most restful garden bower
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Recent Examples of implicating
Like Payton Gendron, who committed a mass shooting at a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York, in 2022, Robinson left a trail of self-implicating messages on the chat-room app Discord.
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Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2025
The case went unsolved for two years, then police released surveillance video of a suspect, prompting a person who knows Wheeler to come forward implicating him, authorities said.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Police soon discover multiple bodies on their properties, including Blanca, Evelia, and Feliza, along with other evidence implicating the sisters and their associates.
—Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Shortly after, an optical counterpart was found, implicating a supernova ~1700 years ago.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 25 Aug. 2025
Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2025
The case went unsolved for two years, then police released surveillance video of a suspect, prompting a person who knows Wheeler to come forward implicating him, authorities said.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Police soon discover multiple bodies on their properties, including Blanca, Evelia, and Feliza, along with other evidence implicating the sisters and their associates.
—Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Shortly after, an optical counterpart was found, implicating a supernova ~1700 years ago.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for implicating
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Anderson is a rare and rangy breed of cinematic maximalist—a satirical quasi-historian and pop-cultural magpie with a gift for weaving disparate influences into a marvellously unruly synthesis.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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Of course, for most visitors, the very act of lining up, sweating, and weaving through stalls is part of the magic of visiting Taiwan.—
Clarissa Wei,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Sep. 2025
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The incenses were twisting in the air, the different smokes braiding themselves like hair in Coraline’s gloved fingers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
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For families, the massive pool, complete with twisting water slides and splash pads, is a major draw.—
Christine Chitnis,
Vogue,
24 Sep. 2025
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The memorial was heavily laden with evangelist music and speeches intertwining politics and divinity.—
Amanda Castro
Mandy Taheri
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Sep. 2025
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In addition to this overarching mystery, each week there will continue to be a patient suffering from ambiguous illness that the team must diagnose, which, with intertwining storylines, could make for some complicated episodes.—
Anne Easton,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Implicating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/implicating. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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