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complicity

[kuhm-plis-i-tee] / kəmˈplɪs ɪ ti /


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In contrast to the gorgeous monochrome visuals, this is a land that stinks of complicity and delusion — of opportunists desperate to scramble onto the right side of history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Yes, we all have some level of complicity in the world’s eventual end.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

"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

Although they seemed to ignore what both of them knew and what each one knew that the other knew, from that night on they were yoked together in an inviolable complicity.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In a culture that refuses to accept its responsibilities, its complicities, we are all reduced, in some essential measure, to a state of savagery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

The coincidence of alleged complicities recalls the farther shores of Jim Garrison's New Orleans fantasies.

From Time Magazine Archive

But then Strefford was always having private jokes with people or about them; and Lansing was irritated with himself for perpetually suspecting his best friends of vague complicities at his expense.

From The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton


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