as in weaves
to cause to twine about one another
the implicated vines did form a most restful garden bower
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Recent Examples of implicates
The incarcerated penguin thief finds a way to reprogram Wallace's robotic garden gnome and send it on a crime spree that implicates the oddball inventor.
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
The trial also implicates 11 other defendants, including former ministers and intermediaries accused of facilitating illicit financial transactions.
—Natalie Venegas, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
Unlike the 2nd Amendment case heard by the Hawaii Supreme Court, the Honolulu case implicates significant federal concerns; permitting the case to proceed under state law would effectively allow Honolulu to regulate emissions and conduct across in every other state in the country.
—David Blackmon, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
While Ver’s legal team challenges the constitutionality of the exit tax, his criminal indictment also implicates the statute of limitations for tax crimes.
—Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
What starts as something broad and comedic soon morphs into a much more disturbing tableau — a piece of violent misogyny that implicates a culture of toxic masculinity, class elitism and even the audience itself.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
That process negatively impacts the Amazon sellers being used in the scheme, but also implicates unwitting consumers, the plaintiffs argued.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2024
Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
The trial also implicates 11 other defendants, including former ministers and intermediaries accused of facilitating illicit financial transactions.
—Natalie Venegas, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
Unlike the 2nd Amendment case heard by the Hawaii Supreme Court, the Honolulu case implicates significant federal concerns; permitting the case to proceed under state law would effectively allow Honolulu to regulate emissions and conduct across in every other state in the country.
—David Blackmon, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
While Ver’s legal team challenges the constitutionality of the exit tax, his criminal indictment also implicates the statute of limitations for tax crimes.
—Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
What starts as something broad and comedic soon morphs into a much more disturbing tableau — a piece of violent misogyny that implicates a culture of toxic masculinity, class elitism and even the audience itself.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
That process negatively impacts the Amazon sellers being used in the scheme, but also implicates unwitting consumers, the plaintiffs argued.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2024
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