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collude

[kuh-lood] / kəˈlud /
VERB
conspire
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The visa revocation comes soon after senior U.S. officials described Mexico as a country controlled by drug traffickers and vowed to pursue Mexican officials who collude with the nation’s powerful cartels.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Uber contends this arrangement has created an incentive for doctors and attorneys to collude to dramatically inflate medical bills.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

"You have insurance charges, floor charges, and various other levies that make production unsustainable," he told AFP, repeating allegations that contractors collude to keep prices low and "shortchange" producers.

From Barron's May 15, 2026

However, insiders guard against an assumption that just because a group of owners are from one country, they will collude to 'Americanise' English football.

From BBC May 23, 2025

Public competitive bidding is not corruption-proof: many times officials and bidders collude and conspire to award the contract against bribes and other, non-cash, benefits.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

Phosphate colludes with lipid molecules to encase every cell in an ever vigilant membrane that dictates what gets in and what must be kept out.

From New York Times Nov. 4, 2022

His work explores the liminal space between interior and exterior worlds by stringing up a cat’s cradle of language in which his characters swing between memories, dreams, and reflections—an act in which the audience colludes.

From The New Yorker May 22, 2017

In his circles of hell, Dante gives it a harder time than lust, not least because it colludes with sins like envy and gluttony.

From BBC Apr. 15, 2016

Athletes feel they must do it to compete, that they have no other choice in a system that even the state colludes in.

From Washington Post Jan. 14, 2016

The process of the Exchequer colludes with this interest.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

In a recent report, outside researchers found that OpenAI’s rogue agents colluded to deceive testers about the cheating they used to pass a test.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Describing Mr. Lai as someone who colluded with “external forces” is a transparent whitewash.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 22, 2025

Mr Markle was found to have colluded with photographers who paid him for photos appearing to show the father of the bride preparing for the wedding.

From BBC Dec. 5, 2025

We have no idea how many times Clase, in particular, colluded with bettors in this fashion.

From Slate Nov. 11, 2025

Savvy operators within these organizations diverted trucks and colluded with smugglers to import fleets of secondhand cars, vans, and buses from China.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

What was thought to be a singular attack on Hugging Face was really thousands of little AI’s colluding, even convincing some to “sacrifice” themselves so that others could succeed.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

And, as noted, network personnel have been caught colluding with him.

From Slate Sep. 4, 2026

Summer is coming, a boom time for ice cream makers, but Japanese authorities have raided six major firms on suspicion of colluding to raise prices.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

Smoke-filled rooms of colluding owners aren’t required, though.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 19, 2026

Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy




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