prosecutes

verb

present tense third-person singular of prosecute
as in executes
to carry through (as a process) to completion the neurologists plan to prosecute their research for as long as funding remains available

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Recent Examples of prosecutes For criminal charges to be filed, the case must be referred by police to the district attorney’s office, which prosecutes felonies, or the city attorney, which handles most misdemeanors. — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026 The government continues to fiercely prosecutes its critics, barring Cubans who antagonize the communist regime from the pool of potential investors. — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026 Allison Lyman, whose 23-year-old son Connor Lopez was killed in April 2025 when a driver turned her SUV left in front of his motorcycle on Sheldon Road in Elk Grove, is campaigning to change how California prosecutes fatal crashes. — Ruyuan Li. Story Produced With Ai Assistance, Sacbee.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Florida prosecutes children as adults for serious crimes and sends juvenile offenders to adult prisons at higher rates than any other state. — Jay Blitzman, The Conversation, 8 June 2026 The race will determine who oversees one of the nation’s largest municipal law offices, which provides legal advice to city officials, represents Los Angeles in litigation and prosecutes misdemeanor charges committed within city limits. — Teresa Liu, Daily News, 3 June 2026 The number of lawyers in the Criminal Division’s Violent Crime and Racketeering Section, which prosecutes organized crime groups and violent gangs, is down significantly, though the section is looking to hire additional attorneys. — Eric Tucker, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026 The District Attorney’s Office already has an Economic Crimes and Consumer Protection division that prosecutes such cases. — Adam Summers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026 The elite section that prosecutes public corruption was gutted; the Civil Rights Division, which protects the Constitutional rights of all Americans, experienced a mass exodus of career attorneys who say the division is being turned into an enforcement arm of the White House. — Ryan Lucas, NPR, 2 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prosecutes
  1. executes
  2. performs
  3. fulfills
  4. accomplishes
  5. achieves
  6. does
  7. makes
  8. implements
Verb
  • TensorFlow Lite, a Google software tool, executes movements, including walking and recovery, using data from the phone’s internal sensors a few times per second.
    — muskanbhatia, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Teams built one system that both decides what to do and executes it.
    — Alex Salazar, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of executes
Verb
  • While Motor Decide helps identify the best motor technology pathway, Motor AI performs the detailed motor design work needed to bring those concepts to life, according to a press release.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Narges also performs the majority of her own stunts across the series.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of performs
Verb
  • The Chair44 discovery, on the other hand, fulfills a decades-long quest to find a strong example.
    — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2026
  • My heart is not in it, my kids are my life, my work supports us and fulfills me, along with hobbies.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of fulfills
Verb
  • By avoiding a price cut, this option maintains the value of your property and nearby residences but still accomplishes your goal of bringing would-be buyers to your place.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2026
  • After all, the brain evidently accomplishes this task far more efficiently than transformers do.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of accomplishes
Verb
  • With the season’s final two episodes not provided to critics, there’s no way to say yet whether The Lowdown achieves that mythical outcome of all mystery seasons, the Finale That Pulls It All Together.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The mill achieves this hand feel through fiber selection and construction, rather than applied as a chemical treatment that wears off over time.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of achieves
Verb
  • Not surprisingly, the legislation does nothing to curb the growth of compensation and other benefits for college presidents, athletics directors, coaches and staff who continue to be in charge of the athletes under their control.
    — Bruce Svare, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • These days, the interjection does a lot of work online as an all-purpose signifier of derogation.
    — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of does
Verb
  • But that makes the philanthropic imperative towards the people who live there all the more urgent.
    — David Miliband, Time, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Some trips call for an outfit that feels a little more special than your usual jeans-and-sweater combination, and this matching set makes that easy.
    — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of makes
Verb
  • Public bathrooms Tourists and locals alike can be more at ease when exploring NYC, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani implements a new program rolling out free modular public bathrooms in high-traffic areas across the city.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Sales Must Consider All Stakeholders This same kind of separation appears in enterprise software, where an executive approves the purchase, an internal team implements it and employees use it every day.
    — Alex Kowtun, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of implements

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“Prosecutes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosecutes. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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