prosecutes

present tense third-person singular of prosecute

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of prosecutes Allison Lyman, whose 23-year-old son Connor Lopez was killed in April 2025 when a driver turned her SUV left in front of his motorcycle on Sheldon Road in Elk Grove, is campaigning to change how California prosecutes fatal crashes. Ruyuan Li. Story Produced With Ai Assistance, Sacbee.com, 7 Aug. 2026 The Israeli army often announces investigations into violence against Palestinians but rarely makes arrests or prosecutes settlers involved in violence. Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026 Florida prosecutes children as adults for serious crimes and sends juvenile offenders to adult prisons at higher rates than any other state. Jay Blitzman, The Conversation, 8 June 2026 Palm Beach County also has a state attorney who prosecutes cases for the entire county, including the Town of Palm Beach. Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026 The race will determine who oversees one of the nation’s largest municipal law offices, which provides legal advice to city officials, represents Los Angeles in litigation and prosecutes misdemeanor charges committed within city limits. Teresa Liu, Daily News, 3 June 2026 The number of lawyers in the Criminal Division’s Violent Crime and Racketeering Section, which prosecutes organized crime groups and violent gangs, is down significantly, though the section is looking to hire additional attorneys. Eric Tucker, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026 The District Attorney’s Office already has an Economic Crimes and Consumer Protection division that prosecutes such cases. Adam Summers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026 The elite section that prosecutes public corruption was gutted; the Civil Rights Division, which protects the Constitutional rights of all Americans, experienced a mass exodus of career attorneys who say the division is being turned into an enforcement arm of the White House. Ryan Lucas, NPR, 2 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prosecutes
Verb
  • The logic controller receives inputs from sensors or other devices, executes a control program and sends outputs to other equipment.
    Steve Weisman, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Richet executes the whole thing with an almost sterile cleanliness.
    Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Winding machines can process up to 240 cells per minute, while a rotary indexing system performs tab flattening and full-tab forming in a single step.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Its facilities can recreate real-world sound environments and changing acoustic conditions to assess how technology performs as the world around the consumer changes.
    Bill Schiffmiller, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • With Blue in the Face, Koy fulfills a two-special Netflix deal inked in 2023.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2026
  • In the town of Paradise, Montana, a historic hot springs resort quietly fulfills the promise of the town’s idyllic name.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • But when a defendant has already demonstrated months or years of compliance, courts should at least ask whether immediate custody accomplishes anything that voluntary surrender would not.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Donating, as many do, to check a box or as a reputation-building exercise accomplishes very little.
    James Chen, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • In our experience, if a story achieves longevity, the numbers and the recognition tend to follow on their own.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Notably, the electrode achieves maximum storage efficiency without overcrowding by first packing the larger zinc ions and following with the smaller protons.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • So does Kevin Reddington, the formidable defense attorney who is representing Clancy in her criminal trial, taking place in Plymouth, which is being live-streamed on the Internet and heavily covered on local news.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Since the coupon amounts cannot change, the instrument that does is the bill, a Treasury security that matures in a year or less.
    James Broughel, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The victory Sunday makes Orlando just the second club in NWSL history to win four consecutive regular-season road matches against the Spirit.
    Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026
  • For context, the Heat — in their history — have had a player makes 200 3s in a single year only seven times.
    ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The siblings may argue that the current transaction implements the type of sale that Jeanie and the trustees contemplated in the tag-along provision.
    Mirin Fader, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Advocacy groups are sounding alarms over widespread issues in federal student loan programs as the Education Department implements major reforms.
    Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

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“Prosecutes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosecutes. Accessed 27 Aug. 2026.

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