RECRIMINATING Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

recriminating

verb

present participle of recriminate

as in retaliating

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Employees, exhibitors, basic cable distributors and others could report concerns to the trustee or to the states, and the combined company would be barred from retaliating against them.

— Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
All parents should recognize that the five students from Lincoln-Way East High made some poor decisions and recognize that the Homewood-Flossmoor student body responded well by not retaliating.

— Jerald McNair, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of retaliating

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His office was responsible for prosecuting federal crimes, including those related to immigration, terrorism, public corruption, child exploitation, firearms and narcotics.

— Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 7 Oct. 2026
Such arrests have profound impacts on the lives and reputations of those falsely accused and take valuable resources away from prosecuting actual perpetrators.

— Kate Payne, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of prosecuting

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That would let prosecutors ask a grand jury to charge Hearn again if new evidence were discovered implicating him in vandalizing the pool.

— Dan Mangan, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026
In her depiction of the exhausting vigilance this reality required, through a second-person voice cannily implicating her reader, Rankine created a new language to identify a problem as old as the United States.

— Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of implicating

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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
Swift appears as a spectral figure trying to warn Johnson that, based on her own experience, her rich husband has more sinister intentions than his current bride imagines.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026

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