incriminate • \in-ˈkri-mə-ˌnāt\ • verb
1. suggest that someone is guilty
2. bring an accusation against; level a charge against
The word incriminate has appeared in 24 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Jan. 29 in “No Terror Link Found in Gun Arrest at Disneyland Paris” by Aurelien Breeden:
PARIS — A 28-year-old man who was arrested carrying two guns at a hotel in Disneyland Paris on Thursday has no known links to terrorism but was still being detained by the police, the French authorities said on Friday.
Officials at the prosecutor’s office in Meaux said in a statement that the investigation, including analysis of the man’s telephone records, had not established “any link with a terrorist act.”
A young woman who had accompanied him to the hotel but fled had been “found and questioned,” but there was nothing to incriminate her at this stage, according to the statement.
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