impeaches

verb

present tense third-person singular of impeach
1
as in accuses
to make a claim of wrongdoing against the company's president has been impeached by the Securities and Exchange Commission

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2
as in challenges
to demand proof of the truth or rightness of questionable methodology that should cause us to impeach the findings of this survey on obesity

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Recent Examples of impeaches If the House of Representatives impeaches a president or another official, the action then moves to the Senate. — Kirsten Matoy Carlson, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026 The National Assembly impeaches Yoon on a 204-85 vote. — ABC News, 19 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impeaches
  1. accuses
  2. challenges
  3. indicts
  4. questions
  5. disputes
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  • Hamas has denied trying to carry out attacks or rebuild its arsenal and accuses Israel of undermining the Gaza peace deal.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
  • OpenAI accuses top Chinese lab of distilling models OpenAI on Wednesday accused Moonshot of wide-scale distillation to improve its own models, as competition intensifies between Washington and Beijing to build the most advanced tech.
    — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of accuses
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  • Zahir Islam, PhD, a physicist at ANL, and co-author of the study, said the finding challenges a common assumption in microelectronics that the substrate beneath a thin film simply acts as a passive support.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Jankowski’s Crying for the March of Humanity challenges this distinction by remaking an entire episode of the Mexican telenovela, La que no podía amar (The One Who Couldn’t Love, 2011), replacing all 40-some-minutes of dialogue with crying.
    — Damaly Gonzalez, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of challenges
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  • The third reason is the one that indicts FIFA’s model directly—what economists call leakage.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 19 June 2026
  • The film neither glamorizes nor indicts Solanas, who Taylor humanizes without softening or sentimentalizing her.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 10 June 2026
Definition of indicts
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  • There was a period where airspace was closed in the Gulf after the Iran conflict began, and then questions about whether the region’s growth story would be interrupted.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • An award decided by sportswriters and broadcasters gives them something convenient to point to when anyone questions that assessment.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of questions
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  • The company disputes that 27 odor complaints since 2024 and 67 videos of work being done outside permitted hours referenced in a city staff report represent actual violations of the city’s noise, odor and operating hour rules.
    — Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
  • ShinyHunters disputes portions of the FBI's description of its activities.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of disputes

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