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noun

Definition of connivingnext
as in connivance

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verb

present participle of connive
1
as in winking
to secretly sympathize with or pretend ignorance of something improper or unlawful the principal connived at all the school absences that were recorded on the day of the city's celebration of its Super Bowl victory

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2
as in plotting
to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends suspects that his coworkers are conniving to get him fired

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  1. connivance
  2. winking
  3. collusion
  4. ignoring
  5. scheming
  6. complicity
  7. strategy
  8. ground plan
Noun
  • Of course, this was done with the connivance of politicians.
    Vera Bergengruen/Buenos Aires, TIME, 23 May 2024
  • Michael Hiltzik: How the GOP — with Democratic Party connivance — has undermined a crucial effort to avert the next pandemic.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
Definition of connivance
Verb
  • No one is winking or making fun, despite the fact that this father and son are extolling the beauty of the morning while inside a sunless bunker six miles underground.
    Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Whatever the noble title, Cronenberg wore the moniker with the same winking irony that suffuses so much of his work – using genre as a kind of Trojan horse to get his unique vision to travel.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 1 Dec. 2024
Definition of winking
Noun
  • Jones, predictably, is fighting back, accusing the judge of collusion and halting the process until a bankruptcy judge can approve it.
    Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Jones alleges fraud and collusion marred the bankruptcy auction in which The Onion was named the winning bidder on Nov. 14 over a company affiliated with him.
    Dave Collins, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of collusion
Verb
  • Instead of pushing down and ignoring, actively look at everything in your life — good and bad.
    Corrin Gani, Austin American-Statesman, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Kroger breached the merger agreement by refusing to divest assets necessary for antitrust approval, ignoring feedback from regulators, rejecting divesture buyers and failing to cooperate with Albertsons, the company claims.
    Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of ignoring
Verb
  • Piñate and the two Smartmatic executives have been accused of scheming to pay more than $1 million in bribes to a Filipino election official to deploy Smartmatic voting machines and pay promptly for them, the indictment says.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Amy and Brian Scott have been scheming like criminals for four fortnights to set up their Swiftmas house in Naperville, Illinois.
    Bryan West, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of scheming
Noun
  • The trial of 54 defendants took testimony about 789 individual crimes from around 900 witnesses and presented new details about the death flights, including the complicity of church officials, who sometimes blessed the pilots before their flights.
    Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
  • An international arrest warrant was issued against Assad last year after France's top court accused him of complicity in war crimes during the civil war.
    Juliana Kim, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of complicity
Noun
  • The Heavy Responsibility of AI Use Institutional investors, regulators, and other stakeholders have begun paying more attention to how companies govern their AI strategies.
    Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
  • But the coming year will mark a tipping point where AI moves from being a tool for individual productivity to a core component of organizational design and strategy.
    Ethan Mollick, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of strategy
Noun
  • In this original usage, it was associated with concepts like designs, ground plans, and sketches—flat forms to be realized as physical structures.
    Leo Kim, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The possible dichotomy between ground plan and volumetric form has never been more apparent to me.
    Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, 22 May 2023
Definition of ground plan
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