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
Separately, a federal class-action lawsuit filed in June by California drivers accused major gas chains of using AI software to collude and keep pump prices high.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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
However, insiders guard against an assumption that just because a group of owners are from one country, they will collude to 'Americanise' English football.
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
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
A character besotted with them — especially reductive trauma-filled ones — colludes in her own miniaturization.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
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
But she also colludes in that secrecy, accepts it as the necessary condition on which she can know her mother.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 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 antitrust enforcement occurs even though customers can voluntarily not buy at the higher prices upon which they’ve colluded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 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
Describing Mr. Lai as someone who colluded with “external forces” is a transparent whitewash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
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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James said Cal-Maine Foods, Versova and Hickman's Egg Ranch began colluding as early as 2022.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
A total of 1,000 Kenyans have been recruited to fight for Russia, according to a Kenyan intelligence report that details a network of rogue officials allegedly colluding with human trafficking syndicates.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
With an attorney on the plaintiffs’ side of the lawsuit colluding with the city’s team, the city could settle the claims on favorable terms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
In December he was convicted of sedition and colluding with foreigners after an interminable trial that seemed designed to drag out his punishment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Fast Food Nation
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