implicates

present tense third-person singular of implicate, archaic

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Recent Examples of implicates There is no evidence that implicates them in any way. Jeff Capellini, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026 Now, because of his imprudent and inaccurate sloganeering, even with a majority of his appointees sitting on the board, the mayor faces the prospect of a legal and political fiasco that implicates the honesty of his most prominent promise to his constituents. Christian Browne, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2026 Past traumas and current abuses culminate in a sudden death that implicates five women in the community, played by Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern and Zoë Kravitz. Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026 All of this makes Unspeakable Things a particular type of #MeToo memoir, one in which the accuser implicates herself—not as complicit in any assault or harassment, but as fully human, and sometimes confounding even to herself. Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026 The scheme has been under investigation since last June and also implicates the Palace of Versailles. News Desk, Artforum, 13 Feb. 2026 The investigation also implicates the brother of Israel’s Shin Bet chief, though he was not indicted. Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026 And the out of control fraud in your state also implicates election security. Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE, 25 Jan. 2026 And what the Court was looking at was whether a soldier could essentially refuse to deploy during a foreign invasion, and that implicates some of the President’s most potent powers in the area of foreign relations. Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for implicates
Verb
  • The show weaves together AI, generative imagery, immersive audio and spatial narrative design, which organizers describe as producing a living, evolving environment.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 July 2026
  • From the thorny starting point of an Apache raid on a Western homestead, Costner weaves a complex, multi-perspective tale that wrestles with the romance and realities of American colonialism and mythmaking.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 July 2026
Verb
  • Waste becomes part of water, and water intertwines with habitat.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • The second chapter intertwines misfortune and impasses.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 10 June 2026

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“Implicates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/implicates. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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