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complicity

[kuhm-plis-i-tee] / kəmˈplɪs ɪ ti /


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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

But the archdiocese source condemned "a culture of complicity and silence" among those around the cardinal, accusing them of helping to protect him.

From Barron's Jul. 7, 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

But to say they choose to live on the street, as Pratt has, is to miss the point, to excuse our own complicity, to overlook historic policy failures, and to choose contempt over compassion.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2026

Once again, complicity with the prevailing system of control may seem like the only option.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

What Price suggests is that anyone, bound up in the tangled complicities of corrupting power, may become an interrogator.

From Time Magazine Archive

It renounces the audience's complicities when it needs them most.

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




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