as in count
a formal claim of criminal wrongdoing against a person
that prosecutor gets an indictment for 90% of his cases
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Recent Examples of indictment
All four men are charged with conspiracy and criminal sale of a firearm, among other offenses, in a 56-count indictment.
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Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
22 June 2026
The indictment alleged Ahmed orchestrated a scheme to use laboratories — some of which were allegedly operated by Khan — in Illinois and Texas to submit nearly $900 million in false claims to the government from April 2021 to June 2022, prompting more than $293 million in fraudulent reimbursements.
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Jason Meisner,
Chicago Tribune,
12 June 2026
All this is to say that when tested against the facts, each pillar of the current indictment of vaccination fails.
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Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
His testimony is essentially a detailed indictment of enforcement failures — smuggling, remote access loopholes, the Blackwell gap, lax Entity List additions, distillation attacks — and a call to pass a specific package of bipartisan bills.
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Mayra Rodriguez Valladares,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
22 June 2026
The indictment alleged Ahmed orchestrated a scheme to use laboratories — some of which were allegedly operated by Khan — in Illinois and Texas to submit nearly $900 million in false claims to the government from April 2021 to June 2022, prompting more than $293 million in fraudulent reimbursements.
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Jason Meisner,
Chicago Tribune,
12 June 2026
All this is to say that when tested against the facts, each pillar of the current indictment of vaccination fails.
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Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
His testimony is essentially a detailed indictment of enforcement failures — smuggling, remote access loopholes, the Blackwell gap, lax Entity List additions, distillation attacks — and a call to pass a specific package of bipartisan bills.
—
Mayra Rodriguez Valladares,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indictment
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Rushing was next, and also went long in a two-strike count.
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He was charged with one count of operating a boat or watercraft while intoxicated or under the influence and is set to appear in court in July.
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Lawyers for the news outlets in the litigation on Friday also moved to dismiss one of the allegations in the lawsuit, a claim of contributory copyright infringement.
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Peltola’s campaign and state Democrats have denied the allegation, as has the challenger.
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Later, Simpson served nine years in prison after being convicted on unrelated charges.
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Those charges were later dropped.
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While media outlets heavily covered the initial accusations, the public narrative shifted dramatically when explosive evidence came to light.
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Starring Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, the film tells the story of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Catholic priest who was burned at the stake over accusations of witchcraft.
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“Indictment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indictment. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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