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Recent Examples of self-incrimination
Patel invoked his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination during his appearance, Booker said.
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Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2025
The right to remain silent has its origins in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects against self-incrimination.
—Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 26 Nov. 2024
During the investigation into Trump’s classified documents, Patel refused to testify against Trump before a federal grand jury, asserting his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination.
—Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 1 Dec. 2024
The Fifth Amendment protects against self-incrimination.
—Brian Walker, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2025
The right to remain silent has its origins in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects against self-incrimination.
—Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 26 Nov. 2024
During the investigation into Trump’s classified documents, Patel refused to testify against Trump before a federal grand jury, asserting his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination.
—Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 1 Dec. 2024
The Fifth Amendment protects against self-incrimination.
—Brian Walker, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-incrimination
Noun
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Arkansas' federal delegation has asked President Donald Trump to reconsider the federal government's decisions on major disaster declaration requests in response to severe weather in mid-March.—
Alex Thomas,
Arkansas Online,
27 Apr. 2025
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The move follows President Trump's January declaration of a national energy emergency and fulfills his campaign promise to ramp up domestic energy production.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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Filled with footnotes where Reid takes her off-the-cuff voice and honest takes to the next level, Enough is a book of our times, wherein candor, confessions, and embracing the bad along with the good seem to rule more by the moment.—
Maya Silver,
Outside Online,
20 Apr. 2025
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Then another man who had been imprisoned as a possible suspect — a black World War II veteran and construction worker, Wesley Byrd, 26 — said Apodaca and state police drove him into the desert and used torture to try to force a confession from him.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2025
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Small affirmations of love and gratitude help keep the emotional connection alive.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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In September 2023, for instance, Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required courts to consider affirmation of gender identity when making child custody and visitation decisions.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
31 Mar. 2025
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Green’s teammate, Moses Moody, gave a sarcastic response to Brooks’ assertion.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2025
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Yet the President himself stokes fears of a slippery slope to strongman rule with his blanket assertions of power, his disregard for democratic guardrails, and his talk of running for a third term, despite the 22nd Amendment’s prohibition.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
25 Apr. 2025
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The Trump administration downplayed the first breach amid numerous officials’ insistence that nothing classified had been shared.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2025
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The economic promise of Dead Sea potash played a key role in Britain’s insistence on governing Palestine after World War I. But extracting the mineral posed a challenge.—
Made by History,
Time,
15 Apr. 2025
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The Senate ultimately approved his confirmation in a narrow vote.—
Kaia Hubbard,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2025
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And there will be more action for Isaacman next week: On April 30, the Commerce Committee will vote on whether or not to report his nomination to the full Senate, a key step in the confirmation process.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Orsolya is apparently wracked with feelings of complicity, though the film, which is made up mainly of extended shots of her conversations with other people, questions the sincerity of her self-reproach against a backdrop of ethnic tension and neoliberal sprawl in Romania.—
Beatrice Loayza,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Amanda’s self-reproach expresses a depressed national mood.—
Armond White,
National Review,
10 Apr. 2024
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One in six visits to the emergency department in 2022 that resulted in hospital admission had a wait of four or more hours, according to an Associated Press and Side Effects Public Media data analysis.—
Devna Bose and Benjamin Thorp,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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Tickets cost $9, or $7 for children ages 2 to 17; admission is free for kids under 2.—
Kendrick Marshall,
Sacbee.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Self-incrimination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-incrimination. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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