PROSECUTE Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

prosecute

verb

ˈprä-si-ˌkyüt

as in to execute

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 prosecute Many would be prosecuted and serve jail time, in what was a unique collaboration between TV news and law enforcement. —

Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025 The Proud Boys have been less visible on America’s streets in the four years since the Capitol riot, for which dozens of members of the group were prosecuted, jailed, and now released. —

Will Carless, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025 Famously, Scopes was convicted, and although the conviction was overturned on appeal, the Butler Act, under which he was prosecuted, remained on the books—and was joined by similar laws enacted in Arkansas and Mississippi later in the 1920s. —

Glenn Branch, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2025 The memo, first reported by Bloomberg Law News, says the U.S. Department of Justice will track and investigate local officials in jurisdictions that don’t cooperate with Trump’s immigration policies and potentially prosecute them. —

Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for prosecute

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There was a tiny cell, its walls painted deep red and carved with graffiti, where prisoners who were to be executed were kept.

— Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
The mission went forward, was executed flawlessly, and Walton was returned to safety.

— Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2025