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"They did not in any way condone or collude with attackers."

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

Public competitive bidding is not corruption-proof: many times officials and bidders collude and conspire to award the contract against bribes and other, non-cash, benefits.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

“It’s like I always say, the family that colludes together gets sued together.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

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

Athletes feel they must do it to compete, that they have no other choice in a system that even the state colludes in.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2016

The process of the Exchequer colludes with this interest.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

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

Describing Mr. Lai as someone who colluded with “external forces” is a transparent whitewash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

Mr Markle was found to have colluded with photographers who paid him for photos appearing to show the father of the bride preparing for the wedding.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 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

Savvy operators within these organizations diverted trucks and colluded with smugglers to import fleets of secondhand cars, vans, and buses from China.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

What was thought to be a singular attack on Hugging Face was really thousands of little AI’s colluding, even convincing some to “sacrifice” themselves so that others could succeed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

And, as noted, network personnel have been caught colluding with him.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

Summer is coming, a boom time for ice cream makers, but Japanese authorities have raided six major firms on suspicion of colluding to raise prices.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

Smoke-filled rooms of colluding owners aren’t required, though.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

Many Osage had come to believe that local authorities were colluding with the killers and that only an outside force like Davis could cut through the corruption and solve the growing number of cases.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann