How to Use collusion in a Sentence

collusion

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  • The company was acting in collusion with manufacturers to inflate prices.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 shipping industry denies that its alliances have led to any collusion on prices.
    — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Dentsu and other companies have been charged in Japan with collusion in commercial contracts for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • And the regulators seem to be in collusion by hiding the true data and parsing it out to the public in differing metrics.
    — Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Current and former players cried foul, with the term collusion taking center stage in a hurry.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 9 Mar. 2023
  • And that’s not collusion, that’s answering stupid questions with.
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Fraser alleges the theft occurred with the collusion of a domestic worker and claims that the theft was concealed from police and the revenue service.
    — David McKenzie, CNN, 6 June 2022
  • Khan says his removal from office was the result of a U.S.-organized plot and collusion with Sharif, whose government has vowed a stern response if Khan violates the ban.
    — Time, 26 May 2022
  • The seeming answer raises concerns far beyond the Big Three’s anti-oil-and-gas collusion.
    — Dan Morenoff, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
  • There is plenty of speculation of collusion among the league’s owners.
    — oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2023
  • In October 2017, Kaepernick filed a collusion grievance against the league, alleging that owners were conspiring to keep him out of the league.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022
  • Fulton County’s prosecutor, Fani Willis, aims to prove that there was collusion to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election.
    — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2023

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