How to Use collude in a Sentence

collude

verb
  • The two companies had colluded to fix prices.
  • But part of it may be due to corporate landlords colluding with one another, according to Stoller.
    Byalena Botros, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Just how much influence, and whether Trump’s campaign was colluding with the Russians, is what is under investigation.
    Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 1 June 2017
  • The news now is that cartel members don’t seem that eager to collude with him.
    James Freeman, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Both men have been charged with colluding in theft and murder, the outlet added.
    Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
  • But all of those things really kind of collude to keep Black women out.
    Abc News, ABC News, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The full report, the key findings of which were published in March, finds that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia.
    Louise Matsakis, WIRED, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The Arab states also accuse Qatar of colluding with Iran.
    Jonathan Schanzer, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Trump is right, and Stephanopolous is wrong: Mueller did clear the president of colluding with Russia.
    Marc A. Thiessen, The Mercury News, 19 June 2019
  • Kaepernick later filed a grievance against the N.F.L. and the owners, accusing them of colluding to keep him out of the league.
    Ken Belson, New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • Lawyers and accountants who look the other way when corporate clients play fast and loose, who even collude with them to skirt the law.
    Robert Reich, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Reid and Kaepernick sued the NFL and alleged that teams colluded in not signing them because of their protest.
    Alaa Abdeldaiem, SI.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Even Nixon would have drawn the line at colluding with Russians — or, in those days, the Soviets — to sabotage the Democrats.
    Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 9 May 2018
  • Tom is colluding with his assistant, Ann, a saint with pointy white nails.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2024
  • That’s the same President whose son seems to have colluded with Russia.
    Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 July 2017
  • President Biden blames the surge in prices on large firms that dominate markets and collude to raise prices.
    William Dunkelberg, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Li and Chan were charged with colluding with foreign forces, alongside Lai.
    Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
  • One aim of the probe was to find out whether any Trump associates had colluded with Russia to help Trump get elected.
    Deb Riechmann, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2020
  • The Left is colluding with big companies to roll back the Second Amendment.
    Amy Lieu, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2018
  • Do not collude with the Taliban to impose false narratives on our past and our future.
    Rina Amiri, Time, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Kaepernick's grievance accuses NFL teams of colluding to keep him out of the league.
    Andrew Lopez, NOLA.com, 5 Nov. 2017
  • The problem is they’ve been forced underground by the schools’ decision to collude to keep overhead low.
    Andy Staples, SI.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Teenage girls collude through song; music is a secret code, a signal, a warning.
    Leah Carroll, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2022
  • As Comer tells it, then-VP Biden 'colluded' with this business by ...
    Will Steakin, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • His suit alleges that Jones’ attorneys and the city colluded to deprive class members of their rights in that case.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Kaeperick has not played since that season and filed a grievance against the NFL that owners colluded to keep him off the field because of his stance.
    Scooby Axson, SI.com, 23 May 2018
  • That celebrities might on some level collude with the paparazzi is, at this point, obvious.
    Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Reid and Kaepernick then sued the NFL, alleging that teams colluded in not signing them because of their stance on the anthem.
    Scooby Axson, SI.com, 29 July 2019
  • That does not imply a willingness to collude in anything.
    Conrad Black, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017
  • With the platform still at war with advertisers who Musk claims colluded to boycott his platform, further reduction to revenue potential will be unwelcome.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2024

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