PROSECUTED Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

prosecuted

verb

past tense of prosecute

as in executed

to carry through (as a process) to completion the neurologists plan to prosecute their research for as long as funding remains available

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Recent Examples of prosecuted Rasco said the State Attorney’s Office committee recommended that the officer who fired the fatal bullet should not be prosecuted. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026 Pillay has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted, said Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2026 At the same time, there has been clamor for the exposure of these sources so they can be prosecuted for war crimes. — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 Mangione’s attorneys have asked New York State Judge Gregory Carro to dismiss the state murder and weapons charges, arguing under the state’s double jeopardy laws he can’t be prosecuted twice for the same crime. — Kara Scannell, CNN Money, 9 Oct. 2026 The statute, Government Code section 8314, carries civil penalties, and violations beyond incidental use can be prosecuted as felonies. — Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Last month, Kobach told reporters that his office had prosecuted four noncitizen voting cases over the preceding 10 months. — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 8 Oct. 2026 While Canal Street’s vendors are prosecuted under a different law, the city’s posture on vending generally is moving toward less enforcement, not more. — Daniel Edward Rosen, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026 The graphic allegations prompted immediate questions about why no one had been prosecuted in 2024. — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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The property, which takes up residence in an 18th-century palazzo, looks fresh-faced and gorgeous after a multi-year and multi-phase renovation executed through the peak of the pandemic.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026
In real life millions of peasants were deported, executed, or starved during collectivization.

— Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of executed

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The new version of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been cut from a five-hour show performed across two parts to a single three-hour performance as it is performed on Broadway.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2026
Drexler’s comedic sensibility was shaped, early on, by the vaudeville acts that performed in movie theatres in between screenings.

— Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026

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Throughout the year, these frugal teams have accomplished quite a bit while matching up against the league’s high rollers.

— Isaac Tellechea, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026
This is accomplished through delivering an explosive warhead with low-density tungsten shrapnel and guidance by millimeter-wave radar for autonomous tracking and targeting.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of accomplished

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Flanagan had the opening of the prom and the tragic promise most viewers know won’t be fulfilled, from the beginning.

— Alex Zalben, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, Russian drivers grit their teeth, endure the lines, and hope that government promises that the shortages will ease after the agricultural harvest season – a time of peak demand – are fulfilled.

— Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of fulfilled

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Moscow — By agreeing to open Russia’s taps and release hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel into a starving global market, the Kremlin has achieved something that raw military might on the battlefields of eastern Ukraine could never deliver.

— Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2026
Faith has achieved all of this in a town where the most boundary-pushing, visionary works and artists aren’t always the ones most celebrated on Music Row.

— Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of achieved

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Since its founding, Storyteller has made flexible vans with outdoor accoutrements front of mind, building out versatile multi-use spaces for strapping in large cargo during the ride before rearranging into a bedroom/workshop once there.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2026
After stepping into a bigger role with most of the Heat’s rotation regulars out and impressing in Saturday night’s preseason loss to the Timberwolves, Conwell again made some positive plays on Wednesday.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026

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