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connivance

noun as in plot

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The panel presiding over the case were suspicious, but, with Quins' backroom staff sticking rigidly to their story, they couldn't unpick the full connivance.

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With the connivance of federal judges who wish to keep their dockets pared down, big corporations force aggrieved consumers and workers into arbitration, where the latter are at a disadvantage.

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"The connivance is hurting the system of value investment, encouraging misbehaviours, and is negative to long-term health of the market."

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To be clear, we do not know yet whether the Hamas attacks were planned with Iran’s blessing or connivance.

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In February 2008, he gave evidence at the inquest into the deaths claiming the couple had been murdered on the orders of Prince Philip and with the connivance of MI6.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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