RECRIMINATING Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

recriminating

verb

present participle of recriminate

as in retaliating

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Employees, exhibitors, basic cable distributors and others could report concerns to the trustee or to the states, and the combined company would be barred from retaliating against them.

— Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
All parents should recognize that the five students from Lincoln-Way East High made some poor decisions and recognize that the Homewood-Flossmoor student body responded well by not retaliating.

— Jerald McNair, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026

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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
Nonprofit leaders are reporting alarming burnout rates and more and more organizations are facing financial challenges that have spurred layoffs and, in some cases, closures.

— Phil Buchanan, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026

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The Justice Department has a long history of investigating and prosecuting hackers who break into a private company's network.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
Zahnd, who had already developed a reputation as being tough-on-crime, was responsible for prosecuting Paden, who died in October 2020 while serving his sentence, on behalf of the State of Missouri.

— Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of prosecuting

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That would let prosecutors ask a grand jury to charge Hearn again if new evidence were discovered implicating him in vandalizing the pool.

— Dan Mangan, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026
In her depiction of the exhausting vigilance this reality required, through a second-person voice cannily implicating her reader, Rankine created a new language to identify a problem as old as the United States.

— Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of implicating

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Right tackle Blake Frazier left the game in the third quarter, trying to keep weight off his right leg, and later returned to play.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2026
Trump already faces opposition to the Iran war among many in his own Republican Party, but trying to find a face-saving way to end it quickly could anger allies, too.

— Robin Wright, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026

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