connivance
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Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet said on Wednesday that scam centres were destroying his country's economy and giving the nation a bad name -- pushing back on allegations of government connivance.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
During the 1990s he privately criticized the “barbarians” brought in by a new editor, Tina Brown, but admitted to Garrison Keillor his “own unprincipled connivance with the Tina regime.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
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 ● Mar. 24, 2025
"The connivance is hurting the system of value investment, encouraging misbehaviours, and is negative to long-term health of the market."
From Reuters ● Nov. 1, 2023
So there were eyes on Guenever now—not the eyes of strong suspicion or of warm connivance, but the bored looks of calculation and the cold ones of society.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing connivance
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