as in weaving
to cause to twine about one another
the implicated vines did form a most restful garden bower
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Recent Examples of implicating
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office later determined that investigators did not follow up on evidence implicating McDowell’s friend as the shooter.
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Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 27 Dec. 2025
Just because a warrantless civil immigration arrest, governed by § 1357(a), may lead to detention or other consequences governed by §§ 1221-1231 does not mean that an injunction implicating § 1357(a)(2) is effectively an injunction impairing the operation of the covered sections.
—New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
Investigators have yet to find any evidence implicating members of the museum staff in the robbery, according to authorities.
—Jon Haworth, ABC News, 25 Nov. 2025
German authorities have built a case implicating an elite Ukrainian unit in the 2022 pipeline explosions, opening diplomatic and political fissures.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 11 Nov. 2025
Detectives even allegedly coerced Rosie into signing a document implicating Frank Jordano and his father, Iorlando Jordano.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
In DaCosta’s film, Hedda’s scheme to stall Lovborg’s comeback is drawn out with more detailed scheming, including implicating Lovborg in a public humiliation of Professor Greenwood (Finbar Lynch), who is responsible for deciding the recipient of the professorship.
—Rory Doherty, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
Not only that, but Hal used Kate to convince Trowbridge to bury the sub, implicating her in this plot.
—Trish Deitch, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
Still, the Epstein saga might have gradually faded from the national consciousness, even in spite of the widespread, unfounded belief that his 2019 suicide in a jail cell while awaiting trial was in fact a murder carried out to prevent him from implicating associates in his crimes.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for implicating
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Both authors write as recovering fawners, weaving their own stories through case studies and explication of therapeutic motifs.—
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Ross attempted to subdue the man using his Taser, but Muñoz-Guatemala was still able to hit the gas and drag Ross at least 100 yards through the street, weaving back and forth to try to shake the officer loose.—
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Two prospectors who had once flown over the area confirmed that, seen from above, the rivers looked like a handful of golden worms twisting through the green.—
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As much a gripping, twisting whodunnit as a heart-wrenching depiction of the aftermath of loss, grief and warped masculinity.—
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The film explores the profound themes of intergenerational trauma and the presence of the gaze of death, intertwining these women.—
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Populist threats to democracy and energy, climate, migration, and security challenges are intertwining in ways that test the capacity of governments everywhere.—
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“Implicating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/implicating. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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