complicit
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Brittan, from Devon, who spoke to the BBC after waiving her automatic lifelong right to anonymity, described the Met as "shambolic, incompetent and complicit".
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
Since 2013, a host of parliamentary inquiries has found the authorities negligent and in some cases complicit.
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
But Mark Cuban, the Mavericks’ former majority owner who currently owns 27% of the team, indicated March 31 on a podcast that Kidd was complicit in the deal.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
Outside of their destroying the concept of privacy, or being complicit in its destruction, they are colossally insignificant.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
She was not the only widow made to feel as if she had been complicit in an unspeakable crime.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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