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"involve" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often implicate (9 letters).
Definitions
make complex or intricate or complicated
Used in a sentence
“My job involves forecasting economic trends.”
“Some have vvritten Myſtically, as Paracelſus, […] involving therein the ſecret of their Elixir, and enigmatically expreſſing the nature of their great vvorke.”
“The face which emerged was not reassuring. […] [T]here was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Have as a part”7 letters
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