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implicated

[im-pli-key-tid]

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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.

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Other Word Forms

unimplicated adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of implicated¹

implicate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

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As a member of the Western military alliance, the US was implicated in the bombing.

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Ex-soldiers from Colombia have been implicated in the assassination of the Haitian president.

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But National Guard troops have themselves been implicated in various recent scandals, including killing civilians and trafficking in black-market gasoline.

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"A lot will turn on whether the courts conclude whether the First Amendment is implicated here," Mr Gavoor said.

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Bukele, who ran as an anti-corruption crusader, vowing to break with past leaders on the left and right implicated in graft, has denied insinuations that he has enriched himself in office, calling critics “imbeciles.”

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