as in executes
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 prosecutes
The office also prosecutes misdemeanors; the responsibility for prosecuting felonies falls to the county district attorney.
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The Editorial Board, Daily News, 20 May 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
As ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger has observed in his book on the lack of accountability for corporate crimes, the Justice Department today prosecutes disproportionately few high-level white-collar criminals.
—Ganesh Sitaraman, Time, 26 Mar. 2026
Critics have questioned the true purpose of the new division, given that the department already prosecutes fraud through its Criminal Division.
—Arkansas Online, 26 Feb. 2026
Critics have questioned the true purpose of the new division, given that the department already prosecutes fraud through its Criminal Division.
—ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
There are four elements for the offense to be considered committed, according to the Crown Prosecution Service, an independent body that prosecutes criminal cases investigated in England and Wales.
—Nbc News, NBC news, 19 Feb. 2026
The Editorial Board, Daily News, 20 May 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
As ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger has observed in his book on the lack of accountability for corporate crimes, the Justice Department today prosecutes disproportionately few high-level white-collar criminals.
—Ganesh Sitaraman, Time, 26 Mar. 2026
Critics have questioned the true purpose of the new division, given that the department already prosecutes fraud through its Criminal Division.
—Arkansas Online, 26 Feb. 2026
Critics have questioned the true purpose of the new division, given that the department already prosecutes fraud through its Criminal Division.
—ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
There are four elements for the offense to be considered committed, according to the Crown Prosecution Service, an independent body that prosecutes criminal cases investigated in England and Wales.
—Nbc News, NBC news, 19 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prosecutes
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Lin does almost everything at a high level, executes the small things extremely well and plays the game with a rare quality, maturity and detail for a D his age.—
Scott Wheeler,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
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The state superintendent of public instruction is a nonpartisan office that oversees the California Department of Education and executes the state Board of Education’s policies.—
Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
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In other words, Gatsby wants to be the app and service layer that connects customers with whichever humanoid robot performs best.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
31 May 2026
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Charlie Puth performs with Jimmy Fallon at Madison Square Garden in New York City on May 29, as part of the singer's Whatever's Clever!—
People Staff,
PEOPLE,
31 May 2026
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And if some don’t feel like The Mandalorian fulfills that mission,there’s always Starfighter (also greenlit under Kennedy).—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
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Meanwhile, José Arcadio Segundo fulfills the patriarch's dream of connecting Macondo to the outside world.—
Veronica Villafañe,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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The scientific one — understanding how nitrogenase, tucked inside an ordinary soil bacterium, accomplishes what the Haber-Bosch process requires an industrial furnace to do — remained open.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 May 2026
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This accomplishes several things.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
29 May 2026
Verb
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Their antagonism peaked at the end of Season 3, when Deborah achieves her dream of landing a late-night chair and Ava blackmails her way into the head-writer job.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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Ultimately, all this achieves is making Davis feel like the odd-one-out, spending most of her arc running around with her side-piece rather than working with her neighbors.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
Verb
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Rather than attacking all rapidly growing cells, as chemotherapy does, the drug targets a key cancer-driving pathway known as KRAS, which is involved in more than 90% of pancreatic tumors.—
Luzdelia Caballero,
CBS News,
5 June 2026
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David Fine as Scorpius does an enormous amount of heavy lifting by injecting urgency and pathos, despite his character’s timid personality.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
4 June 2026
Verb
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The Aquarius Moon makes private material more active, so give the early version room before exposing it to judgment.—
PubSubHub User,
Baltimore Sun,
4 June 2026
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Also, in the lead-up to the summer solstice, nights are short, which makes auroras more difficult to spot.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
4 June 2026
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And so use your human attributes as a competitive advantage to sift through the results while everyone else takes the AI output and implements it blindly.—
Nir Bashan,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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Chelsea’s stable of wingers may be less confident of their future prospects if Alonso implements his Leverkusen system.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
17 May 2026
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“Prosecutes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosecutes. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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