complicity

"They say it, but then they do nothing. I don't know what's worse, the silence or the complicity, because those who stay silent are perfectly aware of the damage football is suffering."

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

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

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

From Slate ● May 11, 2026

The military prosecutor's office said on May 1 that it had "solid evidence" of the "complicity" of certain military personnel, accusing them of helping with the "planning, coordination and execution" of the attacks.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

Anyone who left behind that aura of fun and complicity?

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

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

The coincidence of alleged complicities recalls the farther shores of Jim Garrison's New Orleans fantasies.

From Time Magazine Archive

It renounces the audience's complicities when it needs them most.

From Time Magazine Archive

A single power can rise and, above feudal complicities, above earthly interest, avenge the oppressed and the weak.

From Là-bas by Keene Wallace