as in accusing
to make a claim of wrongdoing against
the grand jury could indict the mayor for fraud and embezzlement
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Recent Examples of indicting
Gerbasi said potential attorneys for the DOJ's Criminal Division might be worried they could be asked to do something unethical, such as indicting someone without sufficient evidence.
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Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
The central and longest section presents the Guru’s grievances against Aurangzeb in the style of a Sufi pir (spiritual guide) addressing a deviant murid (disciple), indicting the emperor for violating the oath and sanctioning the murder of Gobind Singh’s sons.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Apr. 2026
That reality makes the reports of measles inside a federal immigration detention facility in Texas not just alarming, but indicting.
—Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 4 Feb. 2026
The lyrics went beyond Evers’ white-supremacist killer, indicting an entire system that brainwashed poor white Southerners into hatred.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
Many of his songs are powerful and poetic, at times indicting and at times comforting.
—Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
In 2020, the Justice Department took the unprecedented step of indicting Maduro and senior officials on narco-terrorism charges, accusing them of conspiring to flood the United States with drugs in order to undermine American society.
—Duncan S. Demarsh, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026
Attorney General Pam Bondi unsealed Maduro and Flores’s indicting charges, which are a superseding indictment on Saturday that builds on charges initially filed against Maduro in 2020.
—Ryan Mancini, The Hill, 3 Jan. 2026
Prosecutors are still debating whether to make another run at indicting him.
—Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 4 Dec. 2025
Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
The central and longest section presents the Guru’s grievances against Aurangzeb in the style of a Sufi pir (spiritual guide) addressing a deviant murid (disciple), indicting the emperor for violating the oath and sanctioning the murder of Gobind Singh’s sons.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Apr. 2026
That reality makes the reports of measles inside a federal immigration detention facility in Texas not just alarming, but indicting.
—Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 4 Feb. 2026
The lyrics went beyond Evers’ white-supremacist killer, indicting an entire system that brainwashed poor white Southerners into hatred.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
Many of his songs are powerful and poetic, at times indicting and at times comforting.
—Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
In 2020, the Justice Department took the unprecedented step of indicting Maduro and senior officials on narco-terrorism charges, accusing them of conspiring to flood the United States with drugs in order to undermine American society.
—Duncan S. Demarsh, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026
Attorney General Pam Bondi unsealed Maduro and Flores’s indicting charges, which are a superseding indictment on Saturday that builds on charges initially filed against Maduro in 2020.
—Ryan Mancini, The Hill, 3 Jan. 2026
Prosecutors are still debating whether to make another run at indicting him.
—Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 4 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indicting
accusing
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Musk is accusing ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI, and its leaders — CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman — of misleading him and abandoning the company’s original nonprofit mission.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
29 Apr. 2026
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Citizens for Positive Growth & Preservation since 2015 has filed three lawsuits against the city accusing Sacramento officials of violating CEQA.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Indicting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indicting. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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