complicity
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Complicity is defined as a person or entity having engaged in actions whose foreseeable results may have contributed to genocide, but without having personally intended to commit genocide.
From BBC • Jul. 3, 2025
This week, host June Thomas talks to journalist Maureen Ryan, author of the book Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood.
From Slate • Jul. 16, 2023
Complicity, chaos, a sense of context: This is what, at its sharpest, criticism means to evoke.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2022
"Achord's compatriots do not see, or refuse to acknowledge," how similar his beliefs are to their own, agreed Jemar Tisby, author of "The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism."
From Salon • Dec. 2, 2022
I wonder what you’ll name my sin: Complicity?
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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