implicate
verb (used with object)
to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner.
implicates
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present tense formof implicate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Berry implicates a “war” industry for which “war is a part of business.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Florian Zeller’s “Bunker” at least implicates its characters in the politics it professes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Once a right is established through state law,” Flores argues, “a deprivation of the right implicates federal procedural due process protection.”
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2026
Evidence that implicates White also implicates the key outstanding suspects.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
Booth also has left behind clues—among them a business card bearing the name J. Harrison Surratt and a letter from Samuel Arnold, who had been part of the kidnapping plot, that implicates Michael O’Laughlen.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
