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implication
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- We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated.
p. 18.5implicated = guilty of wrongdoing
- Together they became involved in dealing drugs and were implicated in the murder of Vickie Lynn Pittman, a young woman from neighboring Escambia County.
p. 31.9implicated = accused of involvement
- Officials began to suspect that Myers was the sole killer and was desperately trying to implicate others to minimize his culpability.
p. 32.8implicate = accuse (of a crime)
- After months in the county jail, away from death row, Myers again realized he didn't want to implicate himself in a murder he had not committed.
p. 63.1implicate = suggest involvement of
- Yet we were comfortable killing people who kill, in part because we think we can do it in a manner that doesn't implicate our own humanity, the way that raping or abusing someone would.
p. 91.1implicate = involve guilt of
- There is evidence that implicates Walter McMillian for this murder, and my job is to defend this conviction.
p. 110.9implicates = suggests involvement of
- Isaac Dailey, who had been falsely accused by Myers of committing the Pittman murder, explained how Myers had falsely implicated Walter in the Pittman crime.
p. 182.2implicated = accused of involvement
- The local media were eager to join the prosecutors in criticizing the 60 Minutes piece because it implicated their coverage, which had largely presented only the prosecution's theory and characterization of Walter and the crime.
p. 212.8implicated = accused of wrongdoing
- Diane had been wrongly implicated in a drug-trafficking operation that involved her former boyfriend.
p. 238.6 *implicated = accused of involvement
- Joe was not apprehended that day, but he voluntarily turned himself in the next day after learning that Gulley and McCants had implicated him.
p. 257.1implicated = accused of a crime
- After implicating Joe, McCants was sentenced as an adult to four-and-one-half years and served just six months.
p. 257.4implicating = accusing of a crime
- The only physical evidence to implicate Joe was a latent partial palm-print that the state's examiner testified matched him.
p. 257.5implicate = suggest guilt of a crime by
- We argued that the ban on the death penalty had implications because a death-in-prison sentence is also a terminal, unchangeable, once-and-for-all judgment on the whole life of a human being that declares him or her forever unfit to be part of civil society.
p. 270.1 *implications = consequences or impact
- We had learned from some of the early police reports that the father of Vickie Pittman, Vic Pittman, had been implicated as a suspect in her death.†
p. 139.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(implication as in: the implication is that...) Something that follows from something else.The thing that follows could be:
- something suggested indirectly (not said directly)
- something that can be concluded (often a logical consequence)
- something that results from something else
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(2)
(implication as in: Her implication in the crime) involvement in or the suggestion that someone was involved in something -- especially a crime
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)