INFORM (AGAINST) Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

inform (against)

verb

Definition of inform (against)

as in to report

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As previously reported by Variety, Simon Kinberg will pen the script for the film.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 27 Sep. 2026
And then there was audio of a noisy phone call that Wells’s friends had made to a boat-towing company, reporting that one of the boats was taking in water.

— Cristian Farias, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026

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And finally, if person A utters a needlessly wordy or detailed expression that is technically synonymous with a single term, person B may take A to implicate that the term does not apply to the person or event under discussion.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
Ironically, while Lula is not directly implicated in the scandal and Flávio Bolsonaro very much is, the incumbent seems to be the one paying a political price for one of the largest financial scandals in Brazilian history.

— Andre Pagliarini, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of implicate

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Talarico criticized his opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, for not meeting with the accusers and called on him to use his position to sue the federal government for its handling of the Epstein files' release.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026
The decision of whether to sue would be up to the county Board of Supervisors, based on the advisement of county counsel, Haynes said.

— Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of sue

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The Special Criminal Court was established to try war crimes and other human-rights abuses committed during the coups and violence that the country has experienced since 2003.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026
Competitors, well aware of Meta’s reputation, are trying to win by making privacy central to their designs.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of try

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The International Criminal Court does not recognize head of state immunity and has the jurisdiction to prosecute on a charge of genocide.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026
The investigation of Evans was overshadowed in most press accounts, which focussed on the fact that the ICE agent, Christian Castro, was the first federal officer deployed to Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge to be prosecuted for any crime.

— Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

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