cahoots

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It estimated that 66 percent of the around $5.5 billion generated by mining each year was controlled by political elites working in cahoots with organized crime through murky public-private "strategic alliances."

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

For its part, the M23 said the DR Congo army had launched an air and ground assault against its positions, and this was done in cahoots with Burundian forces.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

Within hours of arriving in Venice, he begins to suspect that the city itself, with its disorienting streets and shady denizens, is somehow in cahoots with his sphinxlike wife to betray him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

I didn’t yell or suggest that the officials were in cahoots with the other team, as some people to whom I am married did.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2024

But he had been enlisted in the service of villainy—basically, he was in cahoots with an arch-nemesis.

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo