complicity

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But to say they choose to live on the street, as Pratt has, is to miss the point, to excuse our own complicity, to overlook historic policy failures, and to choose contempt over compassion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

The pope in “Magnifica Humanitas” also asks for “pardon”—from whom it’s unclear—for the church’s complicity in the slave trade and other forms of exploitation.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

What if we could avoid our taxpayer’s complicity, without forgoing the benefits of a common tax system?

From Slate • May 11, 2026

Relations strained further when US troops killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil in 2011 without telling Islamabad, and Pakistan faced accusations of complicity in harbouring the fugitive.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

So that when she noticed the complicity between father and daughter the only promise she extracted from Aureliano Segundo was that he would never take Meme to Petra Cotes's house.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez