complicity
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Yes, we all have some level of complicity in the world’s eventual end.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
Some have questioned the historical accuracy of reports into the level of the Church's complicity, while others have raised legal concerns about it and ideological objections.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Neither is perfect—no earthly creation is—and each is lessened by its complicity with the institution of slavery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
She puts an arm around me, gives me a little squeeze, a squeeze of complicity, of instruction.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
It renounces the audience's complicities when it needs them most.
From Time Magazine Archive
The coincidence of alleged complicities recalls the farther shores of Jim Garrison's New Orleans fantasies.
From Time Magazine Archive
A single power can rise and, above feudal complicities, above earthly interest, avenge the oppressed and the weak.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
Vocabulary lists containing complicity
Animal Farm
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The Things They Carried
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Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam
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