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

“We’re almost all in cahoots, or unconsciously have agreed to society being this way . . . and we’ve been born into it,” she said.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2025

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

Like I was in cahoots with Grandpa, I snored softly.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns