connivance
Example Sentences
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The panel presiding over the case were suspicious, but, with Quins' backroom staff sticking rigidly to their story, they couldn't unpick the full connivance.
From BBC
"The connivance is hurting the system of value investment, encouraging misbehaviours, and is negative to long-term health of the market."
From Reuters
In February 2008, he gave evidence at the inquest into the deaths claiming the couple had been murdered on the orders of Prince Philip and with the connivance of MI6.
From BBC
Adedayo said logging in protected areas “is not possible without the connivance of the civil servants.”
From Seattle Times
The key to the success of “The Departed’s” cops-and-robbers tale of connivance, duplicity and deception is a crackerjack premise that comes courtesy of Hong Kong’s 2002 “Infernal Affairs.”
From Los Angeles Times
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