complicity
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Yes, we all have some level of complicity in the world’s eventual end.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Audiences expecting an easy villain and a clear case of right and wrong will be surprised as the narrative unfolds with an examination of community, complicity and corruption within institutions of power.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Among those who have spoken out is renowned footballer Nchout Njoya Ajara, who has called for an end to the "tragic wave" of targeting women, saying "silence is complicity".
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
But the archdiocese source condemned "a culture of complicity and silence" among those around the cardinal, accusing them of helping to protect him.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
‘Mama, you have to help Amanda,” Jaime pleaded, with the certainty that came from their complicity in matters such as this.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
When it is shorn from the past that has molded its character—the countless connections and complicities that become ever more entwined over generations—a community is deprived of a future.
From Slate ● May 25, 2021
Our traumas and lapsed memories, our silences or complicities, as compared to the current youth culture, to find confirmation that we have evolved.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2018
What Price suggests is that anyone, bound up in the tangled complicities of corrupting power, may become an interrogator.
From Time Magazine Archive
The coincidence of alleged complicities recalls the farther shores of Jim Garrison's New Orleans fantasies.
From Time Magazine Archive
But then Strefford was always having private jokes with people or about them; and Lansing was irritated with himself for perpetually suspecting his best friends of vague complicities at his expense.
From The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
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