How to Use collusion in a Sentence

collusion

noun
  • The company was acting in collusion with manufacturers to inflate prices.
  • Tuite and Wright then accused the two of collusion, the claims says.
    Kenny Jacoby and Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2020
  • There has been a kind of collusion to buy into this idea that to bring it up is to go against civility, to go against norms and make people uncomfortable.
    Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020
  • All of this underscores that the great scandal of 2016 wasn’t Russian collusion.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The very landscape seems to be in collusion with whatever malevolent forces spirited Brendan away.
    Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020
  • And after all, when the economy tanked in 2008, the banks were famously rewarded for their collusion in the disaster with a financial bailout.
    J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The work helped fuel allegations on the right of collusion between the Biden administration and the social media industry.
    Will Oremus, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
  • Adam Schiff jumped off a cliff with the collusion hoax.
    WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • That kind of collusion couldn’t happen now since the final matches in each group kick off at the same time.
    John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • Still, none of it added up to the collusion suggested in Steele's memos.
    Marshall Cohen, CNN, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The need to crack down on corporate collusion with the CCP has never been stronger than at this moment.
    Marco Rubio, National Review, 3 Feb. 2022
  • If prices are the same as competitors’, that’s collusion.
    The Editors, National Review, 29 Sep. 2023
  • If he isn’t wooed by somebody, then collusion again is the star of the show, but there aren’t many kings out there willing to offer the crown jewels.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The filthy talk of collusion, of course hyperbolized by Unsocial Media, again is crawling out of the swamp.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Meantime the Owo remain in full, fierce collusion with the colonists, mainly Portuguese.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The Times won a Pulitzer prize for pushing the Russia collusion narrative, which proved to be much ado about nothing.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Posts, videos and memes falsely claim that the attack stemmed from collusion between Hamas and Israel.
    Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Post-Mueller polling found that about half of Americans believed Trump was guilty of collusion.
    Marshall Cohen, CNN, 18 Nov. 2021
  • And the number one example of that happened to be against Donald Trump with the Russia collusion.
    Brandon Gillespie, Fox News, 18 July 2023
  • Robert Mueller’s team never did find proof of Russia-Trump collusion.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
  • That last week’s assailants managed to slip past Taliban checkpoints points to failings at best, and collusion at worst, on the part of Afghanistan’s new rulers.
    Time, 30 Aug. 2021
  • In this global collusion of distractions there was no longer any room for Michael.
    László F. Földényi, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • James Comey may have been right about Russia collusion after all.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Kaepernick has since filed and settled a lawsuit against the NFL, alleging collusion to keep him from playing in the league.
    Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Perhaps there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign in 2016.
    Star Tribune, 7 Jan. 2021
  • The review also showed no collusion intended to rig the voting.
    Meg Kinnard, ajc, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Legally, collusion may not have been proved, but the door to cooperation was wide open.
    Holman Jenkins, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2023
  • In this chilling expose, journalists crack open secret killings and Kremlin collusion that have kept the business of dirty wars above the law.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Mar. 2023
  • All but one of the previous reductions in average salary came in the wake of work stoppages or when owners were found guilty of collusion in 1987.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The Conversation was always more respected than popular; the Watergate myth (promulgated by partisan media) survives as the root of today’s disastrous collusion between the government and the press.
    Armond White, National Review, 16 Aug. 2024

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