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implicated
[ im-pli-key-tid ]
adjective
- shown to be also involved, especially in an incriminating manner:
In the wake of last year’s doping scandal, the Cycling Federation states that this year’s team will have no connection to any of the implicated team members, either directly or indirectly.
- implied as a necessary circumstance, or as something to be inferred or understood:
My defensive post was answering an implicated accusation that clearly overstepped the boundaries of an opinion.
- intimately connected or related, or affected as a result:
The paper delves into the historical background of our modern understanding of time, as well as the implicated problem of infinity.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of implicate ( def ).
Other Words From
- un·im·pli·cat·ed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of implicated1
Example Sentences
The detailed information may not be collected because of inadequate testing, and that directly implicates outcomes.
The SEC reportedly started a fraud inquiry, and Nikola founder Trevor Milton, who was directly implicated in Hindenburg’s report, resigned from his role as CEO.
The project, which is still running, has provided data for more than 225 scientific papers on proteins implicated in a number of diseases.
Apple has been implicated in several alleged labor abuses over the years.
Boeing has updated the implicated software and added a backup sensor, and FAA Administrator Steve Dickson gave his thumbs-up, going so far as to pilot one of the planes to demonstrate that they are safe.
He confessed after six hours of questioning, and was convicted despite the fact DNA from the crime scene implicated someone else.
And yet, her own brokenness over her failures is written in such a way that the audience is implicated in them.
However, the timing of his resignation does raise questions about whether Sorenson implicated him.
Rubin studied RB and two other genes implicated in cancer, neurofibromin and p53.
Now that Winfield was implicated, he was no longer a threat.
He was a member of the illuminati, and implicated in some of the disputes relating to that order.
Seven months later Captain Preston and other soldiers implicated in the riot were tried before a Boston jury.
An old man who became implicated in the trial of the Chauffeurs of Mortagne in 1809.
Implicated in the affair of the "Chauffeurs of Mortagne" and executed in 1809.
If you are so certain that Enid Orlebar is implicated in the affair, if not the actual assassin, why don't you interrogate her?
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