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complicity

[kuhm-plis-i-tee] / kəmˈplɪs ɪ ti /


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"To put an end to illegal gold mining, we have to stamp out all forms of complicity," local official Gueu Georges Gombagui told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

As such it comes off like a cheat, a deliberately soulless portrait that rejects our sympathies from the start, foreclosing the feelings of complication and complicity a more interesting movie might have generated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Terry Strada, whose husband Tom Strada died in the Twin Towers, unleashed a stinging attack on Riyadh, accusing it of complicity in the attacks, and denouncing former presidents who were in attendance.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 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

She was waiting for him seated in her chair, holding Miguel’s hand, the two of them deep in a mutual complicity from which, as always, Nicolas felt excluded.

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

Well, she knew now—knew weaknesses and strengths she had not dreamed of, and the deep discord and still deeper complicities between what thought in her and what blindly wanted...

From The Reef by Edith Wharton




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