implicating

present participle of implicate, archaic

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Recent Examples of implicating FanDuel, as of Thursday, had the United States as a minus-165 favorite, implicating about a 62% probability of victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2026 Writer-director Pascal Plante skillfully enhances the themes of his film with a cold, unsettling atmosphere, often implicating us as voyeurs with our own fixation on the dark side of humanity. Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026 In 1973, former White House Counsel John Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, implicating top administration officials, including President Richard Nixon as well as himself, in the Watergate scandal and cover-up. ABC News, 8 June 2026 Others have recanted and said police coerced them into implicating Washington and Simms. John Annese, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026 Public statements implicating Raul Castro, who was the actual head of the armed forces, in the decision to shoot down the planes had emerged over the years, some of which were mentioned in the indictment. Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026 Along with the lack of DNA evidence implicating Hunter, his attorneys suggested the neighbors might have been involved in her death. Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2026 Officers discovered significant forensic evidence implicating the trio. Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026 But the official finding did not stop conspiracy theories from spreading suggesting Epstein was murdered because of his high-profile connections and potential for implicating others. Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 25 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for implicating
Verb
  • Entertainment Tonight correspondent Emily Curl will introduce the package, weaving in interviews and on-location interviews from the newsmagazine’s 45-year library of episodes.
    Josef Adalian, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Adela follows her grandfather’s footsteps while transforming his political and anthropological work into art, weaving a sound map from languages at risk of disappearing.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • On bars – her weakest event – Jade Carey fought through a late pirouette to nearly nail her full-twisting double layout dismount.
    Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Like Dante, Nick Tosches was an undaunted character whose tongue-twisting prose was an iconoclastic mash-up of realism and intricate, erudite lyricism.
    A.D. Amorosi, SPIN, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • When the work environment shifts in ways that make objective judgment harder to offer, that intertwining starts to come apart.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The Canadian producer/musician creates songs that feel like they’re haunted by their own ghosts, laced with intertwining echoes, tiny sonic fractures, and a palpable sense of place.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026

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“Implicating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/implicating. Accessed 20 Aug. 2026.

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