implicate
verb (used with object)
to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner.
have implicated
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present perfectof implicate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Gould points out that if not for the video evidence, the death investigations would not have implicated a seizure.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2024
She called detectives and pleaded to know if they had said anything to the Office of Victims Services that would have implicated her son in some kind of a crime.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2023
Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts have implicated 50 people in the fraud, including Hollywood actresses, a fashion designer and titans of business and finance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2019
He said he would not have implicated any of those players.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2017
That Sallust, in his short account of the first conspiracy, should not have implicated Cæsar was a matter of course,190 as he wrote altogether in Cæsar's interest.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Anthony Trollope
