How to Use complicit in a Sentence

complicit

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• And all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this.
  — NBC News, 6 Dec. 2020
• But it’s still viewed as complicit in the soaring death toll in Gaza.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• As if the two of them were complicit in something, a scheme or a love affair.
  — Hari Kunzru, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
• But in this case, the mother of the dead man argued that the website was complicit in her son’s death.
  — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• Both seemed to take it as gospel that the attacks were real or that the Cuban regime was complicit, or both.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 12 June 2018
• This is the backbone of democracy, and all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2020
• Who was the most complicit in allowing this hell to evolve?
  — Rena Gross, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2018
• Shame on her sick, sick self, but more shame on the doctors who were complicit in this delusion.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
• As white women, we’ve been told by the patriarchy to sit and look pretty, to be silent and complicit.
  — Margo Price, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023
• The Chiefs did a really good job of shutting down the run against Baltimore, but the Ravens were complicit in that too.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• If one law clerk knows that another clerk did it and assisted in the coverup, the former would be complicit in the breach.
  — Alan M. Dershowitz, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• But can there be too much contrition from those who were complicit with the Nazis, and is there such a thing as too much atonement?
  — Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
• Thus the United States is complicit in Israel’s war crimes.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
• Worse is that the Biden Administration seems to have been complicit in trying to bury the news.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
• In most cases the orphanages were said to be complicit.
  — Rosebell Kagumire, Quartz Africa, 24 Aug. 2020
• Obama was indeed complicit in the troubling events of our times.
  — The Editors, National Review, 7 Nov. 2023
• To contribute to the economy and prestige of a place is to be complicit in its policies.
  — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
• At the time of the 2019 ruling, sources explained that this might lead to some athletes who might have been complicit in the scandal to compete anyways.
  — Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 30 July 2021
• However, there were many more leaders who were complicit in the farce.
  — Melissa Daimler, Fortune, 10 May 2022
• Is scholarship doomed to be complicit in the violence done in its name?
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 25 Oct. 2017
• Each character in the film is complicit, no one escapes blame.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
• Keenan said those who committed abuse should face jail time and those who were complicit should be removed from the priesthood.
  — Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2023
• Last month, a judge ruled in their favor in a landmark decision that also found the state was complicit in the problem.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2023
• In a darker version of events, the actions of some may have been complicit, even criminal.
  — The Economist, 25 June 2020
• He is believed to have been complicit in the 9/11 plot, among other terrorist schemes.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 11 Oct. 2021
• While folks in the US hated the guy (and were seemingly complicit in his assination), very many of the Grenadans genuinely loved him.
  — Rennie Svirnovskiy, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• The residents feel both complicit in the atrocity and doomed by its aftermath, blaming the Jews — then and now.
  — Elena Lappin, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• The United States of America cannot be complicit in this mass slaughter of children.
  — CBS News, 10 Mar. 2024
• At worst, some speculated that his coterie was either complicit with or under the thumb of the gangs.
  — Amy Wilentz, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
• The Biden administration does not want Moscow to think that the United States is complicit in the attacks.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 24 May 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024