collude
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The visa revocation comes soon after senior U.S. officials described Mexico as a country controlled by drug traffickers and vowed to pursue Mexican officials who collude with the nation’s powerful cartels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
Herzog cites professional wrestling as an example of a spectacle in which the audience members and performers collude in a narrative that is patently false, yet has all the elements of legitimate competition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the lawsuit against RealPage, a software company the DOJ says helps landlords collude to keep rents too damn high.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2024
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
How is he to be punished or impeached if he colludes with any of these banks to embezzle the public money or defraud the government?
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Daniel Webster
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
Bain shut down its South African consulting business last year after a state corruption inquiry into Jacob Zuma found the company had colluded with the former president to weaken South Africa’s tax agency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 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
The Rosenwald organizers, catching Bobby’s implication that they’d colluded to make the pairings more favorable for some, expressed outrage at his protest.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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The Federal Trade Commission has recently flagged advertiser coalitions for colluding to set “brand safety” standards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
And, as noted, network personnel have been caught colluding with him.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
Among the country's biggest ice cream firms, the six "are suspected of colluding" to hike prices, a source familiar with the matter told AFP on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Earlier this month, he was sentenced to 20 years in jail for colluding with foreign forces under the city's national security law.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
“I do not know her story, except that she was obviously colluding with our enemies. I have never met many of the dark beings who lurk in the inhospitable corners of Fablehaven.”
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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