implicate
verb
im·pli·cate
ˈim-plə-ˌkāt 
implicated; implicating
Examples of implicate in a Sentence
His business partner was implicated in the theft.
the implicated vines did form a most restful garden bower
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Things get complicated when Lauren's mom, Margaret , Lucas's brother, and Reid are all implicated in the death of Staten's son.
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Three other senior officials were escorted from the building after being implicated in an ongoing investigation into information leaks: Colin Carroll, chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg; Darin Selnick, Hegseth’s deputy chief of staff; and Dan Caldwell, an aide to Hegseth.
—Tara Copp, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
And as the war in Ukraine has painfully shown, great powers can be implicated in long wars even when they are not directly involved in the fighting.
—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2025
But the ghost guns case was a regulation, not a statute, and the lawsuit didn’t implicate the Second Amendment or any other part of the Constitution.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Three other senior officials were escorted from the building after being implicated in an ongoing investigation into information leaks: Colin Carroll, chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg; Darin Selnick, Hegseth’s deputy chief of staff; and Dan Caldwell, an aide to Hegseth.
—Tara Copp, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
And as the war in Ukraine has painfully shown, great powers can be implicated in long wars even when they are not directly involved in the fighting.
—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2025
But the ghost guns case was a regulation, not a statute, and the lawsuit didn’t implicate the Second Amendment or any other part of the Constitution.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for implicate
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“Implicate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/implicate. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
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implicate
verb
im·pli·cate
ˈim-plə-ˌkāt
implicated; implicating
: to show to be connected or involved
evidence that implicates him in the robbery
Legal Definition
implicate
transitive verb
im·pli·cate
ˈim-plə-ˌkāt
implicated; implicating
1
: to involve as a consequence, corollary, or natural inference
firing the federal employee because of her protest implicates the First Amendment
2
: to connect to a crime
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