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
Florida prosecutes children as adults for serious crimes and sends juvenile offenders to adult prisons at higher rates than any other state.
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Jay Blitzman,
The Conversation,
8 June 2026
Palm Beach County also has a state attorney who prosecutes cases for the entire county, including the Town of Palm Beach.
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Julie K. Brown,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2026
The race will determine who oversees one of the nation’s largest municipal law offices, which provides legal advice to city officials, represents Los Angeles in litigation and prosecutes misdemeanor charges committed within city limits.
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Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
3 June 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.
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Eric Tucker,
Fortune,
19 Apr. 2026
The District Attorney’s Office already has an Economic Crimes and Consumer Protection division that prosecutes such cases.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Arkansas Online,
26 Feb. 2026
Jay Blitzman,
The Conversation,
8 June 2026
Palm Beach County also has a state attorney who prosecutes cases for the entire county, including the Town of Palm Beach.
—
Julie K. Brown,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2026
The race will determine who oversees one of the nation’s largest municipal law offices, which provides legal advice to city officials, represents Los Angeles in litigation and prosecutes misdemeanor charges committed within city limits.
—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
3 June 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prosecutes
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But changing how the world executes agreements was never just about software.
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This command executes malicious code inside the AppleScript directly.
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The county performs about 14,000 inspections annually and about 97% of establishments pass, spokesman Ken Casparis previously told The Sacramento Bee.
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This super-simple dessert performs a delicious magic trick in the oven—the berries sink and the topping rises, yielding a stunning summery treat.
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Technical leaders, who take responsibility for setting the tempo in possession and moving the team forward, can be just as important, and Guimaraes fulfils this duty for Newcastle, too.
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Through this discipline of reduction, the watch fulfills its own promise—perfection through the removal of excess.
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In the end, this revocable trust plus two single-member LLCs structure probably accomplishes no more than to provide a temporary speed bump for creditors.
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Murphy is a player the Warriors front office has circled for years as a prime wing who fits a need, the Kerr system and, at 25, accomplishes the goal of getting younger.
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The physical configuration achieves passive safety operational profiles by relying on subcritical physics variables and inherent material limitations.
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How Clert’s ambitious adaptation achieves this, in under 90 minutes to boot, is best experienced in real time.
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This cozy space does a lot with a little, offering bar seating, booths for larger parties and a few tables for smaller groups.
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So does Milot Kiros, the DSA Congressional candidate who won in Colorado on Tuesday.
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The banquet makes a bold visual comparison of the two women, in fact.
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Franke pointed to Franco-German defense projects as an example of how national political incentives can slow cooperation, even when joint production makes strategic sense.
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That could change on July 1, when the California Department of Parks and Recreation implements stricter rules and penalties for people who fail to cancel their reservation in a timely manner.
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The City Council implements a procedure for considering all recommendations.
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