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complicity

[kuhm-plis-i-tee] / kəmˈplɪs ɪ ti /


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Audiences expecting an easy villain and a clear case of right and wrong will be surprised as the narrative unfolds with an examination of community, complicity and corruption within institutions of power.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

Terry Strada, whose husband Tom Strada died in the Twin Towers, unleashed a stinging attack on Riyadh, accusing it of complicity in the attacks, and denouncing former presidents who were in attendance.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

Yet, within Ghana itself, the conversation around African complicity is far more nuanced, and for some traditional leaders, acknowledging the past is a vital prerequisite part of healing.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

The pope in “Magnifica Humanitas” also asks for “pardon”—from whom it’s unclear—for the church’s complicity in the slave trade and other forms of exploitation.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

So that when she noticed the complicity between father and daughter the only promise she extracted from Aureliano Segundo was that he would never take Meme to Petra Cotes's house.

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

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

It renounces the audience's complicities when it needs them most.

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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