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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

"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

Herzog cites professional wrestling as an example of a spectacle in which the audience members and performers collude in a narrative that is patently false, yet has all the elements of legitimate competition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the lawsuit against RealPage, a software company the DOJ says helps landlords collude to keep rents too damn high.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2024

Christmas Under the mining operations of the moon, continental drifts of cloud collude and a pelican scaffolds the air.

From Unmanned by Stephen Oliver

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

But she also colludes in that secrecy, accepts it as the necessary condition on which she can know her mother.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2016

How is he to be punished or impeached if he colludes with any of these banks to embezzle the public money or defraud the government?

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Daniel Webster

“MRED and Compass have colluded to turn back the clock on consumer transparency.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

In December 1931, they colluded with the Turks to prevent Abdulmejid from attending a global summit of Muslim leaders in Jerusalem, where his foreign supporters had planned to acclaim him caliph.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

Greystar, which manages dozens of apartment complexes in Southern California, has settled a lawsuit that alleges the property giant and other landlords colluded to keep rents artificially high.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 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

The Federal Trade Commission has recently flagged advertiser coalitions for colluding to set “brand safety” standards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

James said Cal-Maine Foods, Versova and Hickman's Egg Ranch began colluding as early as 2022.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Earlier this month, he was sentenced to 20 years in jail for colluding with foreign forces under the city's national security law.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 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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