cahoots
Example Sentences
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They could charge pretty much whatever they wanted, because it was almost impossible to find a landlord who wasn’t in cahoots with a broker.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
It estimated that 66 percent of the around $5.5 billion generated by mining each year was controlled by political elites working in cahoots with organized crime through murky public-private "strategic alliances."
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
He said he and his twin were in cahoots on this bizarre lie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026
“We’re almost all in cahoots, or unconsciously have agreed to society being this way . . . and we’ve been born into it,” she said.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2025
Like I was in cahoots with Grandpa, I snored softly.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
