Implicate
verb
To show or suggest that someone is linked to or involved in something, especially something bad or illegal.
The evidence implicated many top officials in the conspiracy.
Often appears as...
- implicate in a crime
- denote as implicated
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Negative
verb
To show that something, especially something bad, is the natural result or consequence of a particular action, situation or event.
Her words implicated an eventual return to chaos.
Often appears as...
- implicate in events
- actions that implicate
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Negative
verb
In science, to involve as a necessary condition, cause or effect.
Further research implicates high sugar consumption in the development of obesity.
Often appears as...
- research implicates
- implicating factors
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Formal
Technical
verb
To show or suggest that someone is linked to or involved in something, especially something bad or illegal.
The evidence implicated many top officials in the conspiracy.
Often appears as...
- implicate in a crime
- denote as implicated
Usage tips
Negative
verb
To show that something, especially something bad, is the natural result or consequence of a particular action, situation or event.
Her words implicated an eventual return to chaos.
Often appears as...
- implicate in events
- actions that implicate
Usage tips
Negative
verb
In science, to involve as a necessary condition, cause or effect.
Further research implicates high sugar consumption in the development of obesity.
Often appears as...
- research implicates
- implicating factors
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Implying guilt or responsibility, often without direct proof, and usually in negative situations.
The rumors implicated him in the fraud scandal, although he denied it.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Usage
Common in legal contexts to suggest involvement in crime or wrongdoing.
Witnesses implicated the suspect during the trial.
Pro Tip 3/3Cautious Accusation
Used to suggest someone's involvement indirectly, allowing for some doubt.
The report doesn't directly blame him but implicates his policies.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Implying guilt or responsibility, often without direct proof, and usually in negative situations.
The rumors implicated him in the fraud scandal, although he denied it.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Usage
Common in legal contexts to suggest involvement in crime or wrongdoing.
Witnesses implicated the suspect during the trial.
Pro Tip 3/3Cautious Accusation
Used to suggest someone's involvement indirectly, allowing for some doubt.
The report doesn't directly blame him but implicates his policies.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Implying guilt or responsibility, often without direct proof, and usually in negative situations.
The rumors implicated him in the fraud scandal, although he denied it.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Usage
Common in legal contexts to suggest involvement in crime or wrongdoing.
Witnesses implicated the suspect during the trial.
Pro Tip 3/3Cautious Accusation
Used to suggest someone's involvement indirectly, allowing for some doubt.
The report doesn't directly blame him but implicates his policies.
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Steve Ramirez and Xu...
If you were to just completely ignore human ethics for a second and slice up my brain right now, you would see that there was an amazing number of brain regions that were active while recalling that memory. Now one brain region that would be robustly active in particular is called the hippocampus, which for decades has been implicated in processing the kinds of memories that we hold near and dear,
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The Power of Photography...
quite deeply about how implicated we all are in this conflict I'm not saying don't buy any of these products I'm not saying don't use any of these products quite the opposite local Congolese people need these minerals it's there there's you know they this is part of their national wealth and they should
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The US is addicted to...
they are speaking in your names. So we have to take some ownership over this. And we really have to own the fact that this has to change and this implicates every one of us. So what you need to do, is as I said, you need to get educated, you also need to get proximate to this. And by getting proximate,
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Tim Jackson: An economic...
because, if we don't buy them, the system crashes. And to stop it crashing over the last two to three decades, we've expanded the money supply, expanded credit and debt, so that people can keep buying stuff. And of course, that expansion was deeply implicated in the crisis.
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Noy Thrupkaew: Human...
I don't know her story of what happened, and of her life now. The story as I've told it to you is messy and unfinished. But I think it mirrors the messy and unfinished situation we're all in, when it comes to human trafficking. We are all implicated in this problem.
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When technology...
portraits painted with genetically glowing bacteria can you see in the petri dish it's it's a face to support hrus and it's a it's drawn by bacteria that are glowing but they're also spliced with genes that have been implicated in Alzheimer's disease okay
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Debunking the myths of...
are actually hardwired to behave in a certain fashion. Research has implicated three regions of the brain variously involved in social behavior and complex cognitive planning, voluntary movement, and emotional and motivational responses.
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How isolation fuels...
Like oxytocin, which is that hormone that makes cuddling feel all warm and fuzzy. But it also implicates signaling at opioid receptors. There are naturally occurring opioids in your brain that are deeply linked to social processes.
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What happens to people...
the subatomic reaction being observed. In other words, watching something affects its course. In a democracy like the US, prisons are administered in our name and on our behalf. The conditions in ADX implicate our tax dollars,
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You smell with your...
it can influence how you perceive a smell, or in which direction sperm will swim, and as it turns out, a huge variety of other processes. Olfactory receptors have been implicated in muscle cell migration,
Video examples
Steve Ramirez and Xu...
If you were to just completely ignore human ethics for a second and slice up my brain right now, you would see that there was an amazing number of brain regions that were active while recalling that memory. Now one brain region that would be robustly active in particular is called the hippocampus, which for decades has been implicated in processing the kinds of memories that we hold near and dear,
Video examples
The Power of Photography...
quite deeply about how implicated we all are in this conflict I'm not saying don't buy any of these products I'm not saying don't use any of these products quite the opposite local Congolese people need these minerals it's there there's you know they this is part of their national wealth and they should
Video examples
The US is addicted to...
they are speaking in your names. So we have to take some ownership over this. And we really have to own the fact that this has to change and this implicates every one of us. So what you need to do, is as I said, you need to get educated, you also need to get proximate to this. And by getting proximate,
Video examples
Tim Jackson: An economic...
because, if we don't buy them, the system crashes. And to stop it crashing over the last two to three decades, we've expanded the money supply, expanded credit and debt, so that people can keep buying stuff. And of course, that expansion was deeply implicated in the crisis.
Video examples
Noy Thrupkaew: Human...
I don't know her story of what happened, and of her life now. The story as I've told it to you is messy and unfinished. But I think it mirrors the messy and unfinished situation we're all in, when it comes to human trafficking. We are all implicated in this problem.
Video examples
When technology...
portraits painted with genetically glowing bacteria can you see in the petri dish it's it's a face to support hrus and it's a it's drawn by bacteria that are glowing but they're also spliced with genes that have been implicated in Alzheimer's disease okay
Video examples
Debunking the myths of...
are actually hardwired to behave in a certain fashion. Research has implicated three regions of the brain variously involved in social behavior and complex cognitive planning, voluntary movement, and emotional and motivational responses.
Video examples
How isolation fuels...
Like oxytocin, which is that hormone that makes cuddling feel all warm and fuzzy. But it also implicates signaling at opioid receptors. There are naturally occurring opioids in your brain that are deeply linked to social processes.
Video examples
What happens to people...
the subatomic reaction being observed. In other words, watching something affects its course. In a democracy like the US, prisons are administered in our name and on our behalf. The conditions in ADX implicate our tax dollars,
Video examples
You smell with your...
it can influence how you perceive a smell, or in which direction sperm will swim, and as it turns out, a huge variety of other processes. Olfactory receptors have been implicated in muscle cell migration,
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Quote examples
Kate McKinnon
American Actress
My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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Rachel Sklar
Canadian Lawyer
Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.
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St. Vincent
American Musician
I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.
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Whit Stillman
American Director
The great thing for me is how Hitchcock uses guilt so well. He implicates the spectator in the character's field, and you really feel it, and there's incredible relief when it comes out right - if it does come out right.
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Anthony Kennedy
American Judge
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
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David Alpay
Canadian Actor
I'm trying to travel more. Like, intentionally travel. I really want to go and implicate myself in a city and meet people and see how they live and get outside of my world a bit.
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John Jeremiah Sullivan
American Writer
I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated with whatever is wrong with the culture.
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Patrisse Cullors
American Activist
Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on.
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Zadie Smith
British Novelist
I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
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Matthew Desmond
American Sociologist
We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.
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Kate McKinnon
American Actress
My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
Quote examples
Rachel Sklar
Canadian Lawyer
Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.
Quote examples
St. Vincent
American Musician
I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.
Quote examples
Whit Stillman
American Director
The great thing for me is how Hitchcock uses guilt so well. He implicates the spectator in the character's field, and you really feel it, and there's incredible relief when it comes out right - if it does come out right.
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Anthony Kennedy
American Judge
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
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David Alpay
Canadian Actor
I'm trying to travel more. Like, intentionally travel. I really want to go and implicate myself in a city and meet people and see how they live and get outside of my world a bit.
Quote examples
John Jeremiah Sullivan
American Writer
I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated with whatever is wrong with the culture.
Quote examples
Patrisse Cullors
American Activist
Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on.
Quote examples
Zadie Smith
British Novelist
I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
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Matthew Desmond
American Sociologist
We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.
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