collude
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"They did not in any way condone or collude with attackers."
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Separately, a federal class-action lawsuit filed in June by California drivers accused major gas chains of using AI software to collude and keep pump prices high.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
“David called to vent about how protracted the settlement process had become—there was no intent to transmit information, intervene, or collude in the settlement,” Byrne said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 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
And if any be found a seller of the Sacraments, that hee bee deposed simpliciter: and such as collude with slanderous persons in dispensing and over-seeing them for money, incurre the like punishment.
From The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly
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
At the time, Thomas Markle was found to have colluded with photographers, accepting payment to stage photographs of him preparing for the wedding.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Private-equity firm Silver Lake is asking a judge to declare that activist investor Carl Icahn and a group of hedge funds illegally colluded in attempts to fight the $13 billion acquisition of talent agency Endeavor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
German authorities say "Mohammad S" colluded with "Abed Al G", one of three alleged Hamas members arrested last October over planned attacks on Jewish and Israeli institutions.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 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
Chess watchers seem to agree that it was likely the Soviets had colluded, on some level, at Curaçao.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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
In a nation fed up with leaders seen as tolerating or colluding with organized crime, Manzo, 40, stood out.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Smoke-filled rooms of colluding owners aren’t required, though.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Many Osage had come to believe that local authorities were colluding with the killers and that only an outside force like Davis could cut through the corruption and solve the growing number of cases.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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